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Edgar Allan Poe
21) The fall
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English
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A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in which Madeline and her twin brother, Roderick, suffer from the Usher family illness but she hears the House talking to her, filling her dreams, controlling her actions, and ensuring she never leaves the property.
Author
Series
Sworn soldier volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable...
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English
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On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson—and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case—and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatic version of Tell-tale heart, a series of poetry readings by actors dressed in period costume, and audiobook readings of selected stories by Poe. Also includes the option to view written biographical information about Poe, and to view a scrapbook, containing quotations, excerpts, and images pertaining to Poe's works.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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A collection of Curtis Harrington shorts that he wrote, directed, and occasionally starred in. The films are generally silent, strange, moody, and metaphorical.
Fragment of seeking: Harrington plays a young man desperately seeking out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the surreal explorations of his own sexuality.
Picnic: Beginning in the reality of American middle-class...
28) Edgar Allan Poe
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Adaptations of four tales of horror and the supernatural by Edgar Allan Poe, plus an introduction to the author and discussion questions.
Language
English
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When young doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Lamb and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Grave. Edward is intrigued by Lamb's modern methods of treating the insane until a series of unusual events leads him to make a horrifying discovery, exposing Lamb's utopia and pushing Edward to the limits of his conscience.
33) House of Usher
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Story of the last member of the Usher family who is obsessed by generations of evil as he prepares to meet his death.
35) Tales of terror
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Morella: A man is haunted after blaming his young daughter for the death of his wife.
The black cat: A pair of illicit lovers are buried alive by a jealous husband.
The case of M. Valdemar: A sorcerer's spell backfires when he sentences an innocent man to living hell.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
The bells: An ambitious innkeeper on a downward trajectory into insanity murders a wealthy traveler to settle his debts. Though he is not suspected of the crime, a hypnotist in a traveling carnival torments his conscience.
The crazy ray: surreal fantasy in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris with a mechanical ray of his own invention.
Publisher
GKids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this heart-pounding animated anthology. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe's imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history. Include: The tell-tale heart; The fall of the house of Usher; The masque of the red death; The pit and the pendulum;...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The tomb of Ligeia: The story of a dead wife who comes back as a ferocious cat on a deadly game of cat and mouse with her husband's new wife.
An evening of Edgar Allan Poe: Features Vincent Price narrating four of Edgar Allan Poe's most horrifying classics including "The tell tale heart," "The sphinx," "The cask of Amontillado' and "The pit and the pendulum."