Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Joke of the Thing: Poe and George Lippard

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On this date in 1849 the writer George Lippard, a strange, colorful purveyor of ultra-lurid melodrama, Gothic mysticism and eccentric social...
Friday, October 7, 2011

In Memoriam

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Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old-- Thi...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

I'm back...

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...Temporarily, at least. And not here. Today I'm guest-posting over at that lethally interesting blog, Executed Today . I'm expl...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Be That Word Our Sign of Parting...

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This is just to say that I'll be taking a hiatus from this blog. (I'm suddenly picturing all of you responding to this statement by ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Mr. Poe Takes the Stage (Part Two)

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"The Frogpondians may as well spare us their abuse. If we cared a fig for their wrath we should not first have insulted them to their ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mr. Poe Takes the Stage (Part One of Two)

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“[T]he most exquisite of sublunary pleasures…[is] the making of a fuss, or, in the classical words of a western friend, the ‘kicking up a b...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Many Deaths of Edgar Poe

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"And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: For...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Poe and the Milk of Paradise

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"[I] was afraid, from the wild imaginations manifested in your writings, that you were an opium-eater--had some chance for hope that th...