‘Halloween 2011’
Happy Halloween! – The Oval Portrait
Halloween is finally here and with it our final Edgar Allen Poe story. If you have enjoyed these few examples of his work we encourage you to visit your local Toronto Public Library for more! Today's Poe Tale is the lesser known The Oval Portrait... THE CHATEAU into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit [...]
2 Days to Halloween – The Pit and the Pendulum
Two Days to Halloween! Today's Poe Tale is The Pit and the Pendulum... I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears. After that, [...]
3 Days to Halloween – Cask of Amontillado
Three Days to Halloween! Today's Poe Tale is the bone-chilling Cask of Amontillado... THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be avenged; this [...]
4 Days to Halloween – The Raven
Four days to Halloween! Today's Poe Tale is The Raven... Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping [...]
