A review by swagmansnake
The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

These were really fun and also a little spooky. In especial, I really enjoyed the tell tale heart, rue, masque, the cask of amontillado, cat, and the fall of the house of usher. The masque one and the cask of amontillado were probably the top tier for me. I can definitely see the influence on like a lot of things. For instance the usher one seemed like people just got all the horror movie locales from it. One thing I’d be curious to find out more of is what stories in particular dostoevsky was influenced by cause the rue one seemed like similar to his prose. Also gotta be honest as the raven is probably like one of the only poems I’ve read in the last 5 years I was def confused in it. The oval portrait really reminded me the picture of Dorian grey as well. Also looking up drawings for these stories were so fun to see how people imagined them as well. Overall it was definitely a good read. It was fire tho.