A review by caidyn
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
4.0
Ah, Halloween. I love this month. I love this season. Why? Because it gives me a really good excuse to wear sweaters (without dying from heat or them being practical to survive) and I get to reread things that I really like. Such as Poe. He's definitely not my favorite author. I could care less about most of his poems or his ventures into sci-fi. However, I love his horror.
This little collection has some old favorites, some new things, and some stuff I still don't like. It has the staples. "Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum" (which I still hate), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (which I have started liking more each time I hear/read it), and a couple others I can't remember. It also had a few others that I never heard or I love but are never included in collections. The latter is the poem "Alone". If you haven't read it, go and do it right now. It's such a beautiful poem. And really short. Like, a stanza or two is all.
Not only that but they're read by Vincent Price* and Basil Rathbone. The audio skipped for me at times and the sound wasn't that great, but it was worth it. I had a great time listening to these stories. I mean, it's Poe!
*Am I the only one who remembers this? I think I watched all of the episodes on a Youtube channel, then they got taken down. They were so good, and terribly underrated.
This little collection has some old favorites, some new things, and some stuff I still don't like. It has the staples. "Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum" (which I still hate), "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (which I have started liking more each time I hear/read it), and a couple others I can't remember. It also had a few others that I never heard or I love but are never included in collections. The latter is the poem "Alone". If you haven't read it, go and do it right now. It's such a beautiful poem. And really short. Like, a stanza or two is all.
Not only that but they're read by Vincent Price* and Basil Rathbone. The audio skipped for me at times and the sound wasn't that great, but it was worth it. I had a great time listening to these stories. I mean, it's Poe!
*Am I the only one who remembers this? I think I watched all of the episodes on a Youtube channel, then they got taken down. They were so good, and terribly underrated.