About this Event
For our September edition of the Horror Classics Book Club, we will be featuring short stories and poems from Edgar Allan Poe! Come prepared to share your thoughts during our lively discussion around the fire.
For this book club we'll be discussing the following:
- The Raven
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Fall of the House of Usher
- The Black Cat
Bring your own copy or pick up a Penguin Horror edition of Poe's work from The Twisted Spine!
About this edition:
Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.
Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. The Raven: Tales and Poems is a landmark new anthology of Poe’s work, which defied convention, shocked readers, and confounded critics.
This selection of Poe’s writings demonstrates the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind. “The Fall of the House of Usher” describes the final hours of a family tormented by tragedy and the legacy of the past, and in “The Tell Tale Heart,” a murderer's insane delusions threaten to betray him. The title narrative poem, maybe Poe’s most famous work, follows a man’s terrifying descent into madness after the loss of a lover.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Twisted Spine, 306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, United States
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