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the poem we see that Pallas Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom; The Night's Plutonian Shore, a reference to the underworld in Roman Mythology; Balm of Gilead, a reference to the book of Job in the Old Testament; The raven, a mystical m...
old books of "forgotten lore." He is interrupted while he is "nearly napping," by a "tapping on [his] chamber door." As he opens up the door, he finds "darkness there and nothing more." Into the darkness he whispers, "Lenore," hoping his l...
Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado The story is narrated by Montresor, who carries a grudge against Fortunato for an offense that is never explained. Montresor leads a drunken Fortunato through a series of chambers beneath his palazz...
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first detective story writer with the short story 'The murders in the Rue morgue', where the detective Monsieur Dupin solves a strange homicide case where a giant monkey is the murderer. This short story is a ...
the powerful influence a deranged mind may have on a sane one, or even simply as a Gothic horror chiller, it remains a genuine masterwork of American fiction. The narrator of the story tells of an autumn visit to the House of Usher, the fam...
The writer spoke of acute bodily illness - of a mental disorder which oppressed him - and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some al...
attractive juvenile mother of one of Poe's boyhood associates - "the first solely perfect love of my soul," according to the poet. Or was his poetic inspiration Jane Stith Stanard, as many Poe scholars argue? It makes little difference. Si...