Status Updates From The Complete Tales and Poem...

the gold-bug (work 7 of 123) 3/5. i loved the beginning with jupiter being the smartest one of the group not putting up with white people bullshit. but it falls apart when they get to the tulip tree where jupiter is reduced to the worst sort of racial stereotype as part of his penance while legrand starts yapping about superiority and cryptograms.

jesus christ poe is writing a freed slave’s phonetic pidgin english

"The Black Cat" ✅

"The tell-tale heart" ✅

I've read this one before obv but i needed a reminder of why i love it this much

"The Masque od the Red Death" ✅
5 ⭐️ Super cool

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"