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A review by barrettcmyk
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe by Sue Grafton, Jeffery Deaver, P.J. Parrish, Lisa Scottoline, Tess Gerritsen, Joseph Wambaugh, Lawrence Block, Nelson DeMille, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Michael Connelly, Laurie R. King, Laura Lippman, T. Jefferson Parker
3.0
currently reading in preparation for an upcoming trip to Baltimore. seems only fitting. and before anyone asks, yes, i have read some Poe before, in HS (Cask Of Amontilldo, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart) and all seriously creeped me out. so i'm doubly intrigued as to how that opinion might've changed over time.
021011: skipped one or two of the stories in there, but so far i've read William Wilson, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontialldo, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, and A Descent into the Maelstrom. Amontialldo still wins for creepiest; Fall and Ligeia i can't really appreciate because i keep attempting to "science" an explanation. And i found Fall and Wilson unnecessarily wordy somehow. descriptive, sure, but i was rereading paragraphs constantly because my mind kept wandering off. Favorite is Maelstrom -- the descriptions there are rather stupendous.
03/11: read Pit and the Pendulum, which i think i liked better than most of the others, save for maybe Descent. that one was my favorite for some reason. perhaps because it's less horror and more thriller? and of course, The Raven, which was just as chilly yet morose as i seem to recall it being.
021011: skipped one or two of the stories in there, but so far i've read William Wilson, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontialldo, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, and A Descent into the Maelstrom. Amontialldo still wins for creepiest; Fall and Ligeia i can't really appreciate because i keep attempting to "science" an explanation. And i found Fall and Wilson unnecessarily wordy somehow. descriptive, sure, but i was rereading paragraphs constantly because my mind kept wandering off. Favorite is Maelstrom -- the descriptions there are rather stupendous.
03/11: read Pit and the Pendulum, which i think i liked better than most of the others, save for maybe Descent. that one was my favorite for some reason. perhaps because it's less horror and more thriller? and of course, The Raven, which was just as chilly yet morose as i seem to recall it being.