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Originally Posted by evollove

Not sure. 10? Anyway, props to a story for giving me nightmares. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not sure it's happened since.

poe gave nightmares to generations to come.

the mask of the red death! the black cat! the pit and the pendulum!

ha ha you know roger corman made these into movies? and the french loved him for it ha ha ha.

poe was an extraordinary writer, was there at the founding of the modern short story genre, introduced america to a bunch of dark shit, got a million kids into cryptography, invented the detective story, was a great poet and critic and literary theorist.

the guy had brains, and more imagination than the whole XX century put together. all we do is refry his shit now and ignore the source.

except for nabokov who did pay homage.

i need to look up poe again. he's become some sort of cultural cartoon figure at this point, only because he was so good this is how people had to exorcise him.