'The Fall of the House of Usher' describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past. In 'Tell-Tale Heart', a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him, while stories such as 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Cask of Amontillado' explore extreme states of decadence, fear and hate. These works display Poe's startling ability to build suspense with almost nightmarish intensity.David Galloway's introduction re-examines the myths surrounding Poe's life and reputation. This edition includes a new chronology and suggestions for further reading.PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS SELECTED WRITINGSChronologyIntroductionFurther ReadingA Note on the TextPOEMSStanzasSonnet — To ScienceA/ AaraafRomanceTO HelenIsrafelThe City in the SeaThe SleeperLenoreThe Valley of UnrestThe RavenUlalumeFor AnnieA ValentineAnnabel LeeThe BellsEldoradoTALESMS. Found in a BottleLigeiaThe Man that was Used UpThe Fall of the House of UsherWilliam WilsonThe Man of the CrowdThe Murders in the Rue MorgueA Descent into the MaelströmEleonoraThe Oval PortraitThe Masque of the Red DeathThe Pit and the PendulumThe Tell-Tale HeartThe Gold-BugThe Black CatThe Purloined LetterThe Facts in the Case of M. ValdemarThe Cask of AmontilladoHop-FrogESSÄYS AND REVIEWSLetter to B—Georgia ScenesThe Drake—Halleck Review (excerpts)Watkins TottleThe Philosophy of FurnitureWyandottéMusicTime and SpaceTwice-Told TalesThe American Drama (excerpts)HazlittThe Philosophy of CompositionSong-WritingOn ImaginationThe Veil of the SoulThe Poetic Principle (excerpts)Notes

    Collected here to commemorate the 200th anniversary of foe's birth are sixteen of his best tales accompanied by twenty essays from beloved authors, including T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block. Sara Paretsky, and Joseph Wambaugh, among others, on how Poe has changed their life and work.Michael Connelly recounts the inspiration he drew from Poe's poetry while researching one of his books. Stephen King reflects on Poe's insight into humanity's dark side in "The Genius of 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'" Jan Burke recalls her childhood terror during late-night reading sessions. Tess Gerritsen, Nelson DeMille, and others remember the classic B-movie adaptations of Poe's tales. And in "The Thief," Laurie R. King complains about how Poe stole all the good ideas ... or maybe he just thought of them first.Powerful and timeless, In the Shadow of the Master is a celebration of one of the greatest literary minds of all time.--back cover

    The world of Strange Embrace is one of pain and sorrow, obsession and damnation - a world that twists and pollutes the lives of all that enter it. FOR MATURE READERS.

    Signed by Author. Limited to 350 signed and numbered sotfcover chapbooks and SOLD OUT at the publisher. Signed by Author. Sideshow and Other Stories is at once the story of a writer who has reached a crisis point in his own writing, and his encounters with another, older writer who he comes to regard as his lost literary father. Sideshow and Other Stories also contains five stories by this older writer, as well as notes, uncollected phrases, of a sixth story with the apparent working title of Sideshow. CONTENTS: Foreword, The Malignant Matrix, Premature Communicati on, The Astronomic Blur, The Abyss of Organic Forms, The Phenomenal Frenzy, Afterword.

    Voltaire, the creator of CHI-CHIAN and OH MY GOTH, releases the first-ever collection of pin-up artwork from his uniquely twisted mind Revisiting popular characters from previous comics/animation and introducing dozens more, these richly detailed images burst off of the page, opening a door to worlds populated by sultry succubae, sexy androids, and spooky sirens.

    When she reluctantly takes in a paying guest, her secluded life changes forever. Crime writer Joanna Savile has come to interview the inmates at nearby Moy, the asylum for the criminally insane. Her secret aim is to question former child murderer, Mary Maskelyne, Moy’s most infamous patient. Joanna’s prying will yield unexpected results, for although they have never met, Selina March and Mary Maskelyne are connected by a shared family tragedy—an act of unspeakable cruelty that took place in India 50 years earlier.

    Now, Catherine finds herself back on the small peninsula to attend the reading of her eccentric uncle’s will. It is in the very mansion her own grandfather built amongst ghostly servants, chilling houseguests, and a mysterious and captivating stranger that Catherine must finally unlock the dark secrets of her past.

    After a mysterious creature named Zeet manifests itself from the ear of a little girl named Apparrliss, it leads her on a backward adventure through the alphabet.

    She was a Victorian by birth but lived into the second quarter of the twentieth century. Her chosen home was Italy, but she spent part of every year in England, where she published over the years an impressive number of books: novels, short stories, travel essays, studies of Italian art and music, psychological aesthetics, polemics. She was widely recognized as a woman of letters and moved freely in major literary and social circles, meeting and at times having close friendships with a huge number of the major writers and intellectuals of her time, among them Robert Browning, Walter Pater, Henry James, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Berenson, and Mario Praz. Although she never committed herself to one program of political activism, she was an advocate for feminism and social reform and during World War I was an ardent pacifist. In her last years she watched with dismay the emergence of fascism.Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography recovers this crowded and intellectually eventful life from her previously unpublished letters and journals, as well as from her books themselves. Vineta Colby also explores Lee's troubled personal life, from her childhood in an eccentric expatriate family to her several unhappy love affairs with women to her frank recognition that her work, brilliant as some of it was, remained unappreciated. Through it all, Vernon Lee clung to her faith in the life of the mind, and through Colby's engaging biographical narrative, she emerges today as a writer worthy of renewed attention and admiration.Victorian Literature and Culture Series

    From the time of his death well into the twentieth century, partisans debated the issue of his character: was he an alcoholic? drug addict? pathological liar? necrophile? In the 1920s and 30s, psychoanalytic critics sought to divorce the study of Poe from Victorian moral concerns but in the process made scandalous claims by linking Poe's dream-like stories to his personality. The status of Poe's literary productions was similarly disputed; dismissed by the New Critics but championed by poets such as William Carlos Williams and Allen Tate. Recent scholars have debated the meaning and significance of Poe's representations of race, class, and gender, often returning to the character issue: how racist and misogynist was he, and how important are those questions to understanding his work? Finally, how have the seemingly countless plays, films, novels, comic books, and pop music experiments based on his image and works intertwined with academic study of Poe? This book examines these and other controversies, shedding light on broader issues of canon formation, the role of biography in literary study, and the importance of integrating various, even conflicting interpretations into one's own reading of a literary work. This book will be of great interest to Poe scholars, both those who have been a part of the literary battles described above and newcomers to the field who can use the book as a guide to the field of Poe studies, and to all those interested in Poe and his work. Scott Peeples is associate professor of English at the College of Charleston.

    The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography.

    The Gothic Language is seminal to the history of the study of each of these languages. Gothic grammar is a standard text in courses on Indo-European and general linguistics, since Gothic serves as the prototype Germanic language in the study of comparative world language typologies. Particularly pan-Germanic is the innermost core of the grammar, the genetic phonology, which is reconstructed within the more recent approaches of Laryngeal and Glottalic Theories. Most challenging to traditionalist viewpoints is the total novel restructuring of Gothic synchronic phonology via current theoretical approaches such as underspecification theory and optimality theory. Underspecification, utilizing inheritance trees, also infuses the inflectional morphology, which admits a non-configurational syntax with verb-headed clauses. This book also brings the reader into the ambience of the fourth-century Goths. Readings from the Wulfilian bible, the extant eight pages of the Skeireins, together with a glossary, a bibliography and index, complete this volume.

    That's the sad truth. The entire holiday as celebrated today is an artificially constructed combination of pagan rites, cultural traditions, religious ceremonies and marketing nonsense with only the most tenuous connection to an ancient observation of an astronomical event: the winter solstice. And we're OK with that.In 1853, an English church warden named John Mason Neale managed to get his, hands on a sixteenth-century Swedish collection of medieval Latin songs called Piae Cantione. He and his partner decided to tinker with the music and write some new lyrics. Their efforts resulted in a catchy little ditty celebrating Christian charity for the holiday season: "Good King Wenceslas." True to the spirit of Christmas, they ripped off an old song and made something new. The fruits of their labors have been enjoyed by millions world-wide. Like Christmas itself, many holiday carols are simply repackaged versions of earlier works.In that true holiday spirit, member of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society have always enjoyed combining music, holiday cheer, and nihilistic cosmic terror: we used to go Solstice caroling and alarm passers-by on the streets of Boulder, Colorado back in the 1980s. Now we joyfully bring a selection of these Mythos holiday songs to you. In addition to providing the lyrics in an easy sing-along format, we've extensively annotated the songs. Learn the strange but true stories behind favorite holiday carols and relish bizarre tidbits of Lovecraftian holiday lore. We've even included the sheet music for selected numbers.The songbook features a preface by the esteemed Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, who reveals HPL's personal thoughts about the holidays, and seasonal poetry written by HPL himself. You'll enjoy the holiday season in a whole new way with A Very Scary Solstice.The book contains the lyrics for:Awake Ye Scary Great Old OnesAway in a MadhouseThe Carol of the Olde OnesCthulhu Lives!Dance the CultistsDemon Sultan AzathothDo You Fear What I Fear?Es Y'GolonacFreddy the Red Brained Mi-GoGreat Old Ones are Coming to TownHave Yourself a Scary Little SolsticeHe'll Be Back for SolsticeHere Comes Yog-SothothI Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-SothothI'm Dreaming of a Dead CityIt's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-MenIt's the Most Horrible Time of the YearLittle Rare Book RoomMi-Go We Have Heard on HighMythos of a KingOh Come All Ye Olde OnesOh Cthulhu!The Shoggoth SongSilent Night, Blasphemous NightTentaclesAnd the sheet music for:Awake Ye Scary Great Old OnesThe Carol of the Olde OnesDance the CultistsDemon Sultan AzathothI'm Dreaming of a Dead CityOh Cthulhu!

    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

    Trapped ever since in a dream, she wanders the ethereal world confused, hounded by demons. How will she wake up, if she's even alive? The only person with answers is Springheel Jack, a murderous Victorian monster that haunted London rooftops in 1888, yet continues to hunt Alice across the nightmarish landscape. To find the meaning to her existence, she must triumph over the sheer terror of his attacks. However, does she seek answers that are more frightful than an eternity spent in the Waking Dream?

    The volume opens with reviews of available editions, anthologies, reference works, background sources, critical studies, films, and Web sites. The second section contains 28 essays examining the genre's connections to history, philosophy, feminism, and social criticism and exploring common themes, such as entrapped heroines and animated corpses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

    Going against orthodoxy, Pheng Cheah retraces the universal-rationalist foundations and progressive origins of political organicism in the work of Kant and its development in philosophers in the German tradition such as Fichte, Hegel, and Marx.

    Stunning photographs of soaring fan vaulting, exquisite jewels, rare objects of gold and silver, and much more make this book essential for all lovers of the Gothic style. Leading medieval scholars have contributed essays on subjects that encompass all aspects of life in this vibrant and influential time in English history--from war and politics to music and architecture. A magnificent variety of images present the very finest works of late medieval art, with a special emphasis on the splendid architecture of English churches and cathedrals of the period. Many of the remarkable surviving examples of stonework, wood carving, stained glass, and arms and armor are published here for the first time, creating a book of both scholarship and beauty. The Gothic style is once again being revived in interior design and even fashion, making this book, the most complete ever published, appealing to a wide audience.

    In close readings of such major works as The Ruined Cottage, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, and The Excursion, Fosso uncovers the idea of mournful community, or what Wordsworth cryptically proclaimed to be a "spiritual community binding together the living and the dead." In addition to offering an explanation for the poet's mysterious, longstanding preoccupation with death and grief, Fosso discovers a poetry insistently social in orientation--and consistently social in character--and uncovers significant coherence between the poet's early and later works. Buried Communities situates Wordsworth as a reformist during a time of social and political crisis, for whom mourning promised to bind together his disaffected countrymen and disjointed world. With its sociological vantage and strong commitment to historical explanation, the book illuminates an important, previously unseen vista for understanding this Romantic poet's representations of death and grief and significantly reframes the cultural dynamics of the Romantic period in Britain.