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A review by pelks
The Portable Poe by Philip Van Doren Stern, Edgar Allan Poe
5.0
Wow, there's some good stuff in here! I mean in addition to the extremely well-known works. Here are some general observations:
-Why don't we, as a society, talk about the story "Hop-Frog" more? It was actually probably the most horrifying?
-Apparently Poe wrote the first ever cyborg story (!), but also maybe he was extremely horny for the cyborg (?).
-The original version of The Purloined Letter is much worse than the Wishbone re-telling thereof.
-I really liked the collection of short "blurbs/marginalia" Poe wrote (apparently just little musings used to fill space in the magazines he worked for) at the end of this book.
-Speaking of which, Poe wanted the United States of America to be renamed "Appalachia" in part so that the USA wouldn't be taking a name that is already taken by two continents and I really wish the mid nineteenth century USA had taken him up on that suggestion.
-Why don't we, as a society, talk about the story "Hop-Frog" more? It was actually probably the most horrifying?
-Apparently Poe wrote the first ever cyborg story (!), but also maybe he was extremely horny for the cyborg (?).
-The original version of The Purloined Letter is much worse than the Wishbone re-telling thereof.
-I really liked the collection of short "blurbs/marginalia" Poe wrote (apparently just little musings used to fill space in the magazines he worked for) at the end of this book.
-Speaking of which, Poe wanted the United States of America to be renamed "Appalachia" in part so that the USA wouldn't be taking a name that is already taken by two continents and I really wish the mid nineteenth century USA had taken him up on that suggestion.