the cast of amontilado makes me sleep with the lights on.
2007-09-06 20:09:46 · 19 answers · asked by honey 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Poe is the father of many things, but not the short story. Washington Irving's "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon" is a series of short stories (the two most familar being "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) published before Poe published his first book of poetry. The stories in "The Sketch Book" were serialized in 1819-1820 and published as a book in 1820 where as Poe's "Tamerlane and Other Poems" came out in 1827 (although his work "Poetry" was started in 1824 but not printed until after his death). Chaucer's 14th century "Canterbury Tales," itself a series of stories collected in one book, poredates even Irving's works.
As for my favorite Poe short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart." Just love the way Poe uses the murderer's own heart beat as a way to get him to confess. And how that heart beat slowly makes the tale faster and more frantic as it reaches it's final climax.
2007-09-06 21:00:02 · answer #1 · answered by knight1192a 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love all his tales, I worship Poe, but my favorite is the Tell-Tale heart, I also like the Pit and the Pendulum, the Cask of Amontillado, Murders of the Rouge Morgue,The Black Cat and the Facts in the Case of M Valdemer.
2007-09-06 20:16:12 · answer #2 · answered by Casius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tell-Tale Heart.
2007-09-06 21:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a fan of Fall of the house of Usher. If you want to read another author like that check out H P Lovecraft. He writes in sort of the same style of Poe.
2007-09-06 20:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by Mo L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he is even the father of the American short story as Washington Irving was writing them 20 years before him. He is called the father of detective stories at times. I always liked the Fall of the House of Usher.
2007-09-06 20:30:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Cask of Amontillado is my FAVORITE, too!
I also like:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart
2007-09-07 04:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Mary B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always love The Fall of the House of Usher myself. Poe is awesome.
2007-09-06 21:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by DngrsAngl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love his poem "The Raven" as for short stories I would have to say "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" and to my great surprise it was recently used in a murder mystrery book that I was reading.
2007-09-06 20:27:56 · answer #8 · answered by D and G Gifts Etc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure he really is the short story's dad...but anyway, The Masque of the Red Death is amazing (followed closely by TellTale Heart and indeed Amontillado).
2007-09-06 20:13:11 · answer #9 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Black Cat and The Telltale Heart. Pax- C
2007-09-06 20:13:30 · answer #10 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋