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Annual trip to the Faulkner House bookstore in NOLA. I didn‘t know when I chose this that today is his birthday! So happy birthday Edgar! I‘m excited to add this to my Penguin Clothbound collection!

#AutumnPlease #mask
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

As a weird little kid, oscillating between quiet & introvert or manic & “zany”, my parents indulged my love of horror by going to bed and letting me watch late night movies. The Roger Corman, Poe adaptations baffled me but I loved the vibe, Mise-en-scène &, of course,Vincent Price. I read The Raven and Tell-Tale Heart but it‘s long forgotten. I thought it‘s high time I had another go with Poe. Short but creepy. Corman definitely captured the tone.

4.25/5 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌘 #shortstory #edgarallanpoe

Ain't no party like a Prospero party! 👺☠️

#SundayFunday @ozma.of.oz

So topical for the current time. It shows that selfish greed will not save you from yourself, and that you cannot hide from death, regardless of your financial and societal prowess

Needed One more book to complete my 2020 Goodreads challenge so you can never go wrong with a Poe Short Story. Love this one and found it very appropriate and its message still profound even now

As the Red Death ravages everyone else, the Prince and his elite friends keep themselves buffeted, live like it‘s not a thing, and party it up. Isn‘t it truly frightening when reality begins to so closely mirror Poe? #Scarathlon #TeamHarkness

Emily Dickinson: pro at social distancing
Prince Prospero: not so much—he invites 1000 of his closest friends to self isolate in his abbey during a plague.

Nothing like reading a little plague prose during a pandemic. Poe never disappoints. I haven‘t read this story since I was a kid and so glad I re-read it. 💀

To make more sense of life as we currently know it, I decided to face #plaguelit head on! Well, in small doses. This short story by Poe is sumptuous in its language & suitably dreadful & gothic. A part of me, in reading the daily news & wondering how we've built a social & economic order that places human life last, read this as a revenge tale on the ruling class. Let them eat cake? Well, the red death comes for you, too ☠️👑 #pandemicreading

Prince Prospero's decision to wait out the Red Death by social distancing was a good one, in line with government advice. Unfortunately, his other decision to throw a wild party with 1,000 of his friends, not so good. ☠👺☠
Now, it's not that I'm wishing anything (very) bad to happen to them, but the present-day 1% super-rich are following Prospero's example, and I wonder if they might come to the same end? 🤔

I thought I'd cheer myself up by reading Poe's plague story.
It's only my sunny disposition that keeps me going 😐

In light of recent events ... this classic definitely proves history repeats itself

After reading Willa Cather‘s opinion of Poe, I felt the need to read one of his stories. It didn‘t disappoint. And given the current health concerns, it‘s a little too appropriate.

#ChillingPhotoChallenge #Mask #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick watched the PBS American Masters documentary on Edgar Allen Poe yesterday so an obvious choice for today‘s prompt is the Masque of the red death - liberties with the spelling but on point!

Read it and now watched it. Vincent Price💖
#teamstoker #scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

Listened to this last night-twice. It's creepy good! #teamstoker #scarathlon @TheReadingMermaid

@TheReadingMermaid Here you go. Not as good as thumbing through the book yourself, but still...

#masquerade #musicalnewyear @vivastory @Cinfhen

#haunted #Quotsy #QuotsyOct18 #LitsyQuoteChallenge

1. I read a small collection of Edgar Allen Poe when I was 11 and that is what started my love for horror books. Plus my love for Edgar Allen Poe
2. Harry Houdini, after reading Witch of Lime Street, he would be an interesting one to meet!
3. People that bang their silverware against plates cups. Makes an awful noise 😡 also, entitled people 🤬
Join in the fun!!!

My first time doing a quote challenge! Day 1: death

Android Litsy users: what app do you use to make quote images?

#quotsyNov17 @TK-421

Prince Prospero may think it is #partytime but this is an invitation I will gladly decline. I much prefer our Litsy Party of Ones. #gypsykatsbirthdayweek

This is one of my favourite Poe stories.

#Masked #AprilBookShowers

Happy Birthday to the Master of the Macabre.

Your gift has arrived and I love it❣ Thank you @Anitta you made my day. I hope, that you have a nice celebration yesterday. Želim ti sve dobro i miran Badnji dan.

#secretsantabookswap

I went to visit The Poe House museum in Baltimore today! It was super cool! And then of course I had to walk over to a church cemetery to see his two grave sites. If you're in the area, definitely check it out!

Coffee with @RavenRenegade is very bookish. (Featuring her Bronte sisters mug and my Poe mug, both by The Unemployed Philosophers Guild.) #shenanigans #coffeeandbooks #crashqueens #bleedcaffeine