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Textbook Stuff: Classic Horror - The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Macabre Tales
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1.3. Textbook Stuff: Classic Horror - The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Macabre Tales

Available August 2010

Written by Edgar Allan Poe

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‘Edgar Allan Poe is that most classical of American writers – a writer more peculiarly attuned to our new century's heartbeat than he ever was to his own’ – Lou Reed

The five tales collected here range from the famous to the obscure, but each displays Poe's unique sense of the macabre and his love for the baroque. A victim of the Inquisition finds himself in a nightmarish torture chamber, a castle is besieged by plague, a man becomes obsessed by the evil eye of his fellow lodger, a mesmerist suspends a man's life at the point of death and a jester takes his revenge on his cruel employers.

STORIES: The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar and Hop-Frog

BONUS MATERIAL: Sick Unto Death, Prospero's Masque and My Last Jest - three incidental music suites by Howard Carter.

Recorded on: 15 April 2010
Recorded at: Moat Studios

 

BIOGRAPHY:
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe’s full-blooded Gothic style influenced generations of writers, filmmakers and musicians, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Baudelaire to Roger Corman and Lou Reed.

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  • Product Format: 0-download only
  • Duration: 160 minutes
  • Physical Retail ISBN: n/a
  • Digital Retail ISBN: 0842108077030
  • Production Code: TSCH003
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