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  • Master of the Macabre

  • Included: The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Annabel Lee
  • By: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Narrated by: John Rayburn
  • Length: 1 hr
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Master of the Macabre

By: Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by: John Rayburn
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Summary

Originally published 1839-1849

Just who was Edgar Allan Poe? Of course he was an author, but there were parts of his life that were shrouded in mystery, like many of his stories. The differences between fact and fiction were intermingled and became even more so after his death.

Readers around the world had their imaginations stimulated by his tales of mystery and sometimes horror. He was able to arouse emotions by making implausible subjects and events into believable happenings. That ability made them into literary classics.

Affairs of his real-life sometimes echoed the frequent bizarre viewpoints that he brought to startling life in his manuscripts.

This book features two of his horror variety tales, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, as well as two of his more famous poems, “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee”.
Public Domain (P)2021 John D. Rayburn
Classics Horror Poetry Scary United States Fiction Heartfelt
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I feel that Mr Rayburn did not understand what he was reading, the result being a little on the bland side, Lacking passion, and feeling, it sounded rushed with a great need to get to the end and perhaps to drinks with friends or a nice dinner. This may be a little unkind on my part. You might like it, I have listened to the entire recording once, and as the raven said Never More.

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