A few days ago somewhere on social media I noticed that the '36 Italian short Il Caso Valdemar, based on the tagged Poe story, was described as “the first gory movie.“ Intrigued by this I decided to reread the story & watch the short. When the story was published in 1845 it was believed for a time to be real, due to not being labeled a work of fiction & being presented as a case study. The Wikipedia entry for the story is fascinating. But I👇
Last night of #cyoreadathon and I pulled together a solid 5 hours of reading (not so bad for me right now) and I‘m very happy with it. Since yesterday along with some more of conjuring of light I finished The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and started A Discovery of Witches to mix things up. Had a great time this weekend and I‘ll keep adding books to #screamathon and #scarathon for #teamharkness.
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Decorated the porch today and started some spooky reads 🖤☠️ I‘m going to add some pumpkins next weekend and paint them🎃
pickPoe has a power of terror in this story unmatched, in my opinion, by King and Lovecraft. He uses literary power.
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar | 
Rathbone reads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB5l6NlQcuI
Il Caso Valdemar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3qGwCPKhdI 2y