What is your favorite Edgar Allen Poe short story?

by Regulus [99 - INSHALLAH] Posted 2007/06/18 19:11:12

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	The Purloined Letter
	The Fall of the House of Usher
	The Cask of Amontillado
	The Masque of the Red Death
	The Murders in the Rue Morgue
	Undecided (Please leave a comment)
	All of the above
	None of the above (Please leave a comment)
	The Tall-Tale Heart

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	The Purloined Letter	0 votes	0%
	The Fall of the House of Usher	1 vote	3%
	The Cask of Amontillado	4 votes	14%
	The Masque of the Red Death	2 votes	7%
	The Murders in the Rue Morgue	1 vote	3%
	Undecided	1 vote	3%
	All of the above	5 votes	17%
	None of the above	3 votes	10%
	The Tall-Tale Heart	12 votes	41%

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mood ring 2007/06/19 00:41:27

All of the above

+3
how can you pick? Whenever i read his work I'm sucked right in it's impossible to pick just one
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Robb 2009/06/03 21:15:58

All of the above

You can't go wrong with E.A.P.

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NameLess*Angel* 2008/09/13 00:12:57

All of the above

anything from Edgar Allen Poe...is amazing love his writers...=]

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Raindropkitten™~the author ... 2008/06/17 15:33:06

The Cask of Amontillado

this use to scare me so much yet i could never stop reading it since its such an engaging piece of literature

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StreetSpirit 2008/03/18 19:02:53

The Cask of Amontillado

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liv 2007/12/15 10:21:21

The Tall-Tale Heart

this is the only short story of his i like but I really like his poetry

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Leethal 2007/11/28 00:59:45

None of the above

+1
My fave is " Morella" he has this wife that is pregnant but she becomes sick and doesn't survive the childbirth so he names his new daughter 'Morella' in her honour and he loves her as she is just like her mother and she ends up dying before him and he goes to bury her with her mother and finds that the mothers body is not there and realises that the mother & daughter were the same person, the same soul, as one together.
Hard to explain, you'd have to read it but I think its beautiful

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River 2007/07/18 16:29:35

The Tall-Tale Heart

Love that one.

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5nowdog5 2007/07/14 00:31:15

The Tall-Tale Heart

The Tell-tale Heart is a very deeply creepy book when the guy starts to scream about the old man.

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20218 2007/07/02 23:02:41

The Tall-Tale Heart

Ok - now see this topic isn't even fair. If FORCED to choose I'm going to go with the Tell Tale Heart - but it's SO hard to choose! I LOVE THEM ALL! Poe remains an inspiration to my writing to this day! Excellent question.

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Eric 2007/06/30 01:25:11

None of the above

"Valley of Unrest "....but you know I love them all

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shiela33 2007/06/29 23:10:05
Joey 2.0 2007/06/23 17:08:40

None of the above

+1
"The Raven" ... although i love all his stories.
By the way: Does anybody know Alan Parsons "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe" ? It was this vinyl (i bought it when i was 10 years or so), that drew my attention to E.A. Poe.

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kellley 2007/06/19 20:58:43

All of the above

+1
But especially "The Raven". or "the pit and thee pendulum".

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Eric to kellley 2007/06/30 01:26:21 (edited)

The Raven was my intro 2 Poe and I have been hooked ever since

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chilton~T~ 2007/06/19 06:39:40

The Cask of Amontillado

+2
Scary.

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mood ring 2007/06/19 00:41:27

All of the above

+3
how can you pick? Whenever i read his work I'm sucked right in it's impossible to pick just one

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Hank 2007/06/19 00:16:20

The Tall-Tale Heart

+2
The Tell Tale Heart. Quick but interesting read. Scared me as a kid when I first read it.

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Fef 2007/06/18 23:41:11

The Tall-Tale Heart

+1
I enjoy the first person perspective of a mad mind...

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shiela33 to Fef 2007/06/29 23:46:15
Rain 2007/06/18 23:14:16

The Fall of the House of Usher

+2
Poe was brilliant..I also like The Cask of Amontillado and the Raven.

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Danny 2007/06/18 20:34:39

The Tall-Tale Heart

+1
Soooo creepy

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jackrorabbit 2007/06/18 20:24:45

The Masque of the Red Death

+1
And the Tell Tale heart. But most of them are worth the time reading.

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Teedee 2007/06/18 20:06:14

Undecided

+1
Several good ones there..My favorite piece is..Eldorado. I remember in school we had to learn this and recite it in front of the class.. I actually remember all the words to this.. amazing..:))

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Glenda 2007/06/18 20:05:36

The Cask of Amontillado

+2
This just brings me back! I will never get the image of the man chained to the back wall and a brick wall being built in front of him. Talk about tourture! Poe was brilliant!

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MAGGIE IRISH EYES 2007/06/18 19:39:15

The Tall-Tale Heart

+1
Also, I like "The Raven".

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jackror... to MAGGIE ... 2007/06/18 20:25:13

+1
Nevermore

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MAGGIE ... to jackror... 2007/06/18 21:16:36 (edited)

+4
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary..."

(I used to know the first few verses of The Raven and Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner but now I have trouble remembering what I ate for breakfast yesterday. lol).

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jackror... to MAGGIE ... 2007/06/19 01:55:14

+2
You had waffles, I had the big meat platter at IHOP, lol

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