[biggerten]

The Cask of Amontillado by The Alan Parsons Project.

https://youtu.be/nrrIm4ozbUc

[fwdude]

Poe would have been a “goth” today, so obsessed he was with death.

[DesertRhino]

He was a weirdo. Meager talent but vaunted for the same reasons as Stephen King. Just told scary stories so people think him to be deep or something.

[waterhill]

Victorian America was just as strange as Victorian Europe.

Caught ‘The Pit and the Pendellum’ the other day. Vincent Price. The mother had been walled in (buried alive, which was a thing back then).

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

POE and H.P. Lovecraft. Two of the best! Of course there are others trying to best them, and many of them are good!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I read some Poe in grade school it was OK. Jack London was a way better story teller I thought.

[Clint N. Suhks]

WAY TO GO POE!

[Daaave]

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

The Cask Of Amontillado On YouTube

[VTenigma]

bump

[DoodleDawg]

Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells—
Of the bells, bells, bells—
To the sobbing of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells—
Of the bells, bells, bells—
To the tolling of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—
Bells, bells, bells—
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.