The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe says, “The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world”. Although not many of Edgar Allan Poe’s works surrounded the idea of the death of a woman, most of his poems, if not all, portrayed death. He became renowned for his stories and poems about mystery and horror (Say Media, 1). The extent of Poe’s influence on our culture is immense. He in fact invented the modern day detective story that many people enjoy and cherish today. Throughout…

of being a reciter of verse. One, major event early on his life before the age of three is his mother passed away, this is what lead him to writing his poems in an attempt to find an woman to remember his mother. At the same time, of his mother’s death his father abandoned the family and probably died a short time later. A family in Richmond, Virgina took Poe in that held the family name of John Allan, and that is how Poe got his middle name from the adotpted family. About the year 1815 to 1820,…

When the first words of a book are an epigraph from H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Revival, or an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”, on the first page of The Shining, some sort of horror can almost be guaranteed. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because once past the disturbingly graphic descriptions of death in some cases, one can become enraptured in a storyline with twists and turns unparalleled by King’s fiercest…

Vincent Price The man behind it all In the mid-20th century, movies from the 50’s and 60’s were simple and yet captivating with many different genera’s to choose from. Some of the films where adapted to fit stories and epic tales you might find and remember from older books and fables from the past. Some of the best films focused on the classical Greek periods, the medieval times, renaissance period’s old westerns and modern day flicks with a strange horror aspect in it. Vincent Price was one…