Two Poe Tales
Chapter 1 of 2 How To Write a Blackwood Article
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29:50
- Running time
- 59 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Catharine Eastman
Chapters
About this recording
Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a Blackwood Article and its companion piece A Predicament are satirical works exploring the pieces of the formula generally seen in short horror stories (“articles”) found in the Scottish periodical “Blackwood’s Magazine” and the successful misapplication of said formula by – horrors! – a woman author! – respectively. (Summary by Catharine Eastman and Wikipedia)
