Many people associate Edgar Allan Poe‘s tales of the macabre with Halloween, but how well do they know the man behind these stories? Just in time for the holiday, In Search of Edgar Allan Poe will begin airing on PBS stations and streaming on the PBS App on October 25. Totaling three hours, the two-part […]
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Edgar Allan Poe may have enjoyed some amount of popularity during his lifetime, but he certainly could not have predicted just how influential his writing would become in the ensuing years. Even over two centuries later, we’re still seeing reverential homages to his work in modern media, and that’s not even including the immeasurable impact […]
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One of the great unsung traditions of horror is a character’s external environment reflecting their internal state. It has found its way into films as diverse as Repulsion (1965), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994), and Relic (2020) to name just a few. Edgar Allan Poe was hardly the first […]
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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and the brand new official trailer has arrived this morning. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix recently announced that “Usher” will premiere on October 12, […]
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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix has announced this morning that “Usher” will […]
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The legendary Corman-Poe Cycle gets a comprehensive spotlight in the brand new book Corman/Poe: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964, which is NOW AVAILABLE from Headpress Books. Written by Chris Alexander with a foreword by Roger Corman, the book is illustrated with dozens of photographs and stills, […]
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Edgar Allan Poe is known in the literary world as the imagination behind some of history’s most haunting stories. From “The Pit and the Pendulum” to “The Raven,” Poe’s legacy as one of the great American poets and authors of horror fiction is firmly established. But Poe steps into the spotlight in Scott Cooper’s Netflix […]
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One of America’s literary greats, Edgar Allan Poe is most associated with horror thanks to his macabre, Gothic poetry and short stories. But the writer is also often credited with being a detective fiction pioneer. Director Scott Cooper’s The Pale Blue Eye, an adaptation of Louis Bayard’s novel, crafts a fictional Gothic whodunnit around Poe’s tenure […]
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A “gripping whodunit that’s also an Edgar Allan Poe origin story,” Netflix‘s The Pale Blue Eye first comes to select theaters on December 23, 2022, while the film will begin streaming on Netflix on January 6, 2023. The Pale Blue Eye was directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) and stars Christian Bale alongside Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe. Christian Bale portrays retired detective Augustus Landor, tasked […]
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A “gripping whodunit that’s also an Edgar Allan Poe origin story,” Netflix‘s The Pale Blue Eye first comes to select theaters on December 23, 2022, while the film will begin streaming on Netflix on January 6, 2023. The Pale Blue Eye was directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) and stars Christian Bale alongside Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe. Christian Bale […]
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Coming soon to Netflix is The Pale Blue Eye, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers) and starring Christian Bale alongside Harry Melling as Edgar Allan Poe. The Pale Blue Eye comes to select theaters on December 23, 2022, Netflix has announced this month, while the film will begin streaming on Netflix on January 6, 2023. Christian Bale portrays retired […]
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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s next series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe.” 8 episodes have been filmed, and Flanagan and […]
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Writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is known for his short stories and poetry dealing with mysteries and the macabre. In the U.S., he is regarded as a dominant figure of Romanticism and is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a major contributor to science fiction. Poe’s […]
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Shudder is heading into the Halloween season with a handful of brand new Shudder Originals, one of which is Raven’s Hollow, a horror story about a young Edgar Allan Poe. Raven’s Hollow premieres on September 22, only on Shudder. Bloody Disgusting is serving up an exclusive clip from Raven’s Hollow this afternoon, which sees a young Edgar […]
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While we wait for Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s series “The Fall of the House of Usher,” upcoming indie The Fall of Usher from Mutiny Pictures similarly adapts Edgar Allan Poe tales. Mill Creek Entertainment brings the film to Digital on July 12, 2022. Preview The Fall of Usher with the official teaser trailer below. Based on […]
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