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    Post by Supernova Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:48 pm

    A lot of his stories are very well known and he's even credited as writing the first mystery/detective story with the Murders in the Rue Morgue, but of all his stories, which one are you particular to?


    My favorite story has always been The Telltale Heart, the whole concept just always struck me as being very freaky, but I like it.
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:40 pm

    As a kid I read a lot of his stories, I had a complete volume of all of his stories. I do recall the Tell Tale Heart vaguely and I remember the Raven but Ligea (sp?) stands out in my mind about a man and his dead wife, I remember getting the creeps out of that one.
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    Post by Supernova Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:17 pm

    I think I read Ligeia back in October but very little of it, I'll have to read it again.


    I remember once on the show Homicide: Life on the Street, Munch had a case where the victim had been bricked up in a wall for years like in an Edgar Allan Poe story...and I thought it was the Black Cat, I haven't read the Black Cat but heard an audio version of it and the narrator confesses to killing his wife and bricking her body up in the wall...but then I read another story, I don't remember the name, where one man is drunk and laughing and another man who went with him is bricking him up, so I guess the one Munch was referring to would be the latter.
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:35 pm

    Supernova wrote:I think I read Ligeia back in October but very little of it, I'll have to read it again.


    I remember once on the show Homicide: Life on the Street, Munch had a case where the victim had been bricked up in a wall for years like in an Edgar Allan Poe story...and I thought it was the Black Cat, I haven't read the Black Cat but heard an audio version of it and the narrator confesses to killing his wife and bricking her body up in the wall...but then I read another story, I don't remember the name, where one man is drunk and laughing and another man who went with him is bricking him up, so I guess the one Munch was referring to would be the latter.

    I think I recall a movie I saw about a black cat bricked up in a wall, I think it was one of those 3 story horror movies. There could have also been a body in the wall with the cat your description brought back a vague memory.

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    Post by Supernova Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:41 pm

    It was because when the police came and they saw the new wall, the man showed them how sturdy it was by hitting it and there came a loud inhuman scream from inside the wall, and they took the bricks out and found out the cat had been sealed up in there with the dead wife.
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    Post by Tony Marino Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:22 pm

    Supernova wrote:It was because when the police came and they saw the new wall, the man showed them how sturdy it was by hitting it and there came a loud inhuman scream from inside the wall, and they took the bricks out and found out the cat had been sealed up in there with the dead wife.

    What movie was that from, I know I saw it awhile ago.
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    Post by Supernova Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:51 pm

    I haven't seen the movie but that was how it ended in the version I heard. They build it up so you think the scream was from the wife who has been dead for several days, but it's the cat.
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    Post by MidniteCowboi Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:39 pm

    Fall of the House of Usher, Tell Tale Heart, Masque of the Red Death, and the poems: Annabel Lee and The Raven are my faves.
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    Post by MandyPerfumeGirl Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:34 pm

    I'm a big fan of Poe! Some of my favorite stories of his are: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat" and "The Masque of the Red Death." My favorite poems of his are: "The Raven", "Annabel Lee" and "Alone."

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