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Poe’s Tales of Terror

In this riveting program, the tragedy-laden life and literary genius of Edgar Allan Poe are explored by Poe biographers Jeffrey Meyers and Kenneth Silverman; Joan Dayan, author of Fables of Mind: An Inquiry into Poe’s Fiction; J. Gerald Kennedy, of Louisiana State University; writers Ray Bradbury and Poppy Z. Brite; filmmaker Wes Craven; and Jeff Jerome, curator of The Baltimore Poe House and Museum. Their insightful commentary, combined with reenactments of scenes from Poe’s life and dramatized synopses of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” “Ligeia,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” makes this documentary an essential part of any survey of 19th-century American literature or genre fiction. A Discovery University Production. (50 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29970
Copyright date: ©2001
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5762-7


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