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Christopher Lee reads Tales of Mystery & Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
00:00:00 Hop Frog
00:23:24 The Raven
00:33:42 The Masque of the Red Death
00:52:38 The Tell-Tale Heart
01:07:34 - 02:06:15 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
00:23:24 The Raven
00:33:42 The Masque of the Red Death
00:52:38 The Tell-Tale Heart
01:07:34 - 02:06:15 The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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Published May 1, 1985
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Edgar Allan Poe
9,850 books28.8k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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March 23, 2021
O Sir Christopher Lee διαβάζει ιστορίες τρόμου του Edgar Allan Poe.
Εντάξει, έχει φύγει αυτόματα το 5άστερο πριν ακόμα ακούσω το πρώτο λεπτό. Αυτό δα έλειπε!
Αλλά πιο πολύ στο 4/5 καταλήγω.
Εντάξει, έχει φύγει αυτόματα το 5άστερο πριν ακόμα ακούσω το πρώτο λεπτό. Αυτό δα έλειπε!
Αλλά πιο πολύ στο 4/5 καταλήγω.
December 12, 2023
اینو گرفته بودم که مثلاً هاوس او اشر رو با صدای کریستوفر لی گوش بدم ازش، که خب نداشتش! (اگه اول دسکریپشن اینجا رو میدیدم بعد میرفتم سراغ گوش دادنش متوجه میشدم، متاسفانه اول فایل رو باز کردم و فایلم هم جدا جدا نبود داستاناش.)
ولی خوب شد که گرفتمش چون Hop frog رو ایبوک خونده بودم، که باز هم صدای سارومان خیلی جذاب ترش کرده بود. از اولین چیزایی که از آلن پو خوندم بود و اون موقع هم زیاد دوستش نداشتم.
ولی برا هاوس او اشر آخر سر فکر کنم مجبورم همون که سینا گفت، برم یوتیوب ببینم و بشنومش.
ولی خوب شد که گرفتمش چون Hop frog رو ایبوک خونده بودم، که باز هم صدای سارومان خیلی جذاب ترش کرده بود. از اولین چیزایی که از آلن پو خوندم بود و اون موقع هم زیاد دوستش نداشتم.
ولی برا هاوس او اشر آخر سر فکر کنم مجبورم همون که سینا گفت، برم یوتیوب ببینم و بشنومش.
November 30, 2021
Christopher Lee delivers a superb performance and adds even more chills to a selection of Poe tales which were already not in the least bit lacking in the chilled department.
April 19, 2025
I hadn't read Poe in decades. Perfect little tales of horror.
December 17, 2021
4.7/5
They couldn't have gotten a better voice to read Poe's classic stories than Christopher Lee's booming, dramatic, distinctive baritones. All the stories are pretty good, with The Tell-Tale Heart being my favourite of Poe's. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory. The entire audiobook is on YouTube for anyone curious, and I'd recommend you give it a listen.
They couldn't have gotten a better voice to read Poe's classic stories than Christopher Lee's booming, dramatic, distinctive baritones. All the stories are pretty good, with The Tell-Tale Heart being my favourite of Poe's. Everything else is pretty self-explanatory. The entire audiobook is on YouTube for anyone curious, and I'd recommend you give it a listen.
October 15, 2022
A splendid little collection of tales.
October 12, 2023
This has succeeded in convincing me I need the physical copies now
December 25, 2023
so thrilling. 🫀🐦⬛👁️
i haven’t managed to find the whole thing yet though and have been looking for months.
i haven’t managed to find the whole thing yet though and have been looking for months.
February 19, 2024
An enjoyment indeed...!
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