COMMENTS:
Voted : The Raven
I always liked the Raven. When my eldest was about 6 or seven, we had a neice of the same age stay the night. I told them I was gonna tell them a scary bedtime story.
Anyways to cut a long story short I told them the Raven, and when I was finished they both laughed and told me it was crap. Kids!!
6 or seven??? What was that about?
Voted : The Cask of Amontillado
"The thousand deaths of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.."
Second-Best Opening Line EVER.
Voted : The Narrrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
This was Poe's only novel, and, while a disjointed mess narratively, it has one of the strangest, most frightening endings of any of his works. It really reads more like something H.P. Lovecraft might have written rather than Poe but not entirely,
I won't give away the ending, but here's a passage from the last chapter:
"The whole ashy material fell now continually around us, and in vast quantities. The range of vapour to the southward had arisen prodigiously in the horizon, and began to assume more distinctness of form. I can liken it to nothing but a limitless cataract, rolling silently into the sea from some immense and far-distant rampart in the heaven, The gigantic curtain ranged along the whole extent of the southern horizon. It emitted no sound."
Here are a few other candidate for scariest Poe tale, besides the ones already mentioned:
"Ligeia"
"Berenice"
"The Tell-tale Heart"
"The Black Cat"
"MS. Found in a Bottle"
"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (my second favorite Poe tale)
"Never Bet the Devil Your Head"
Requiescat in Pace, M. Poe.
Man could put pen to paper, couldn't he, Felix?
Yep, Truthseeker013, he most certainly could. His works have been translated all over the world. What a sad life he had...
I hope he's at peace now.
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