In this feature, each week I'll share a guest with you all,
and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.
In Three Words...
Edgar Allan Poe
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
The. Exquisite. Horror.
ReplyDelete[As in: "Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."]
Jx
The Tell-Tale Heart
ReplyDeleteHis name!
ReplyDeleteTales involving mystery.
ReplyDeleteRaven, Alluring, Charm
ReplyDeleteQuote the Raven
ReplyDelete...a midnight dreary.
ReplyDeleteOne word - 'taphophobe'.
ReplyDeletea new word!
DeleteI discovered it when I was mid-teens, reading a newspaper critical review of the then new film 'The Premature Burial' , based and extended from, I believe, a short horror story of Poe's. I've always remembered it yet don't believe I've ever seen or heard anyone using it since then - so it would be a stretch to ever describing it as a 'useful' word. :-)
DeleteI too hadn't heard of that word. Between yourself, Raybeard and Helen, and Dr Spo...I'm amazed at your word library
DeleteTragic bleak house
ReplyDeleteMarried his cousin
ReplyDeleteburied in Baltimore.
ReplyDeleteCutlery urban legend.
ReplyDeletePoet, mystery, macabre.
ReplyDeletedark, mysterious poems
ReplyDeleteCreative, innovative, imaginative.
ReplyDeleteLoved his writing and stories. No writer has the ability to evoke a sense of horror and dread more effectively than Edgar Allan Poe, who in my opinion was the father of the modern day detective stories.
Talented – Gifted –Accomplished
ReplyDeleteProficient, Articulate ,Expressive
ReplyDeleteWrote creepy stuff.
ReplyDeleteMore popular dead.
ReplyDelete(It's really unfair that so many writers should reach the zenith of their careers well after their deaths. In fact, in Japan at the turn of the century it was understood that you would not be popular until after your death so there were several relatively young authors who would write what they considered their most important work and then off themselves in hopes that it would become popular upon their deaths. Most notably, Akutagawa Rynsuke (Rashomon).
Your right Melanie. Seems to be the case with poets and artist.
DeleteDark, Imaginative, Perturbed
ReplyDeleteIntrospective, troubled, imaginative.
ReplyDeleteeerie, gothic, enigmatic
ReplyDeleteWest Point reject
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteThe telltale heart
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