octavia_cade's review against another edition
4.0
This beautifully illustrated book contains one of my favourite poems ever, "The Raven", the creepy cadence of which more than compensates for the purple sentimentality and old fashioned language. Poe's other poems don't fare so well, but his short stories age better, I think, at least some of them. With all the good will in the world I can't take "The Tell-Tale Heart" seriously (it must be the most sudden loss of control to madness in all of literature; from collected murderer to shrieking loon in less than a page) but I will never not find "The Fall of the House of Usher" disturbing - and on multiple levels.
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