Selected Shorts: POE!
Category: Books,Literature & Fiction,Short Stories & Anthologies,Anthologies
Selected Shorts: POE! Details
Poe! is a deliciously gripping sampling of the mad imagination of 19th century gothic master of horror and suspense, murder and mayhem, Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy, breathtaking, and soulful classic tales include: "The Masque of the Red Death", the terrifying and ironic story of a nobleman who attempts to seal himself and his friends away from a terrible plague raging outside, performed by Fionnula Flanagan (Transamerica); "The Pit and the Pendulum", a hair-raising first-person account of a man in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition, performed to a fare-thee-well by Stephen Lang (Avatar); "The Black Cat", in which a man's dead pet comes back to haunt him, performed by Tony winner Rene Auberjonois (Boston Legal). Plus there are dreamy, mesmerizing, and haunting readings of Poe's wonderfully-atmospheric best-loved poems, "The Bells", "The Raven", and "Annabel Lee".
Reviews
Narrator is excellent. My grandson has loved Poe since childhood, and he really likes this CD, He called me all excited right after he heard the CD [a gift] as soon as he heard it.