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A review by trin_ney18
His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined by Dahlia Adler
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4/5 Stars
It's very hard for me not to like a short story collection. There's always going to be stories and authors that I find myself enjoying and I'm a glass-half-full kind of person. If I like even a small amount of the stories found here then it's going to get a good rating from me.
What I really liked about this was that they were retellings or reimaginings of Poe's stories. I remember going through a huge Poe phase in middle school so this was so much fun to read. They were also mostly horror and dark stories which I just love.
I also really loved how diverse the authors were and the characters they created.
Here are some of my favorite stories from the collection (this isn't to say that I didn't like the others, they were all amazing and I enjoyed them very much):
Night-Tide by Tessa Gratton
The Glittering Death by Caleb Roehrig
A Drop of Stolen Ink by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Red by Hillary Monahan
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allen Poe
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allen Poe
It's very hard for me not to like a short story collection. There's always going to be stories and authors that I find myself enjoying and I'm a glass-half-full kind of person. If I like even a small amount of the stories found here then it's going to get a good rating from me.
What I really liked about this was that they were retellings or reimaginings of Poe's stories. I remember going through a huge Poe phase in middle school so this was so much fun to read. They were also mostly horror and dark stories which I just love.
I also really loved how diverse the authors were and the characters they created.
Here are some of my favorite stories from the collection (this isn't to say that I didn't like the others, they were all amazing and I enjoyed them very much):
Night-Tide by Tessa Gratton
The Glittering Death by Caleb Roehrig
A Drop of Stolen Ink by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Red by Hillary Monahan
Hop-Frog by Edgar Allen Poe
The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allen Poe