A review by bzzlarabzz
His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler

3.0

 My impressions of the YA adaptations seem to be heavily shaped by how well I love the original stories. Like, I appreciate the Auguste Dupin stories for their origination of detective stories, but I don't particularly enjoy them. The adaptations were fun and clever. But most of the other stories seemed overly simplified or only connected on a surface level. They were fine, but I honestly don't know that my teenage students would like them any more than I did. Not bad, but not as good as I wanted them to be. I do like that they included the original Poe stories in the book, so a newbie to Poe can easily do a tandem read. Even though I'd already read almost all of the Poe stories, I did a tandem read, too, which was fun.