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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened...
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : silent, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Bells (1926, 68 min.). An ambitious innkeeper murders a wealthy traveller to settle his debts and is haunted by a hypnotist in a traveling carnival. His conscience is tormented by an apparition of the dead man seeking a confession of his own. At 3:25 (1922, 19 min.). A surreal fantasy in which an eccentric scientist freezes the population of Paris with a mechanical ray of his own invention. The American edition of the French film.
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume G1679
Pub. Date
1906
Physical Desc
xiv, 88 pages : folded geneological tables
Language
English
13) Antiques ravin'
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne--elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own--springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shihtzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. In showing that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science, Tresch...
17) Edgar Allan Poe
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xi, 99 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
18) Edgar Allan Poe
Author
Series
Twayne's United States author volume TUSAS 4
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
[1977]
Edition
Second dition.
Physical Desc
166 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016, 2013.
Edition
DVD + Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 DVD and 1 Blu-ray (approximately 73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this heart-pounding animated anthology. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe's imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history. Include: The Tell-Tale Heart; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum;...
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