6/24/2023 0 Comments Hideous heart![]() Is it any wonder I found myself drawn to “His Hideous Heart,” a collection of stories inspired by Poe’s work? Each is told by a different author, and the original stories and poems are included. I like that idea.Īnother of my favorites is the story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” about a man who commits murder and slowly loses his mind over it, imagining he can hear the victim’s heart thumping under the floorboards. ![]() Maybe it absorbed some of the strangeness and mystery of the tales inside. Either my memory played a trick on me, or the book did. Yet when I opened it another time, I found the poem in the table of contents after all. ![]() I bought a collection of his stories and poems, but when I got home and opened it, I recall being disappointed that “The Raven” wasn’t included. Maybe you’ve read its famous opening lines: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore…” His best known piece, “The Raven,” has a wonderful rhythm and creepy feel to it. ![]() I’ve been a fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s work for a long time. ![]()
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