The Avenging Conscience was directed by D.W. Griffith in 1914. It is 50 minutes long, a step in Griffith’s progressive move into feature films. His next film was to me his controversial masterpiece, Birth of a Nation. This film is …

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Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film, very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. Bela Lugosi, one year after his performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic scientist …

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A NEW GIVEAWAY OF A 7″FIRE TABLET THE FINAL DRAWING OF 2023 OF AN AMAZON KINDLE 7″ FIRE TABLET Say Congratulations to Joe C and his wife, Nancy, who have been on my reader list for about five years. THE …

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Edgar Allan Poe

From The Baltimore Sun Wearing all black with the broad brim of a hat to preserve his anonymity, a man stepped up to Edgar Allan Poe‘s gravesite on Saturday to resurrect the tradition of toasting the long-dead writer on his …

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Annabel Lee BY EDGAR ALLAN POE It was many and many a year ago,    In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know    By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived …

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