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The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
The Complete Horror Classic "Blood Bath" The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe: The imp of the perverse and other tales: Odyssey, starring Vincent Price: 1976 A hornbook for witches, stories and poems for Halloween: 1977 Dining at Versailles: The bard's board / Food from Shakespearean times: The Monster Mash / The Bard's Own Recipe: 45 Single Classical ...
Lesley Pratt Bannatyne (editor), A Halloween Reader: Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloween Past; Ray Bradbury (author), The October Country; Ray Bradbury (author), From Dust Returned; Richard Chizmar (editor), Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas; Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish (editors), October Dreams: A Celebration of ...
The ultimate list of scary monsters related to Halloween and all things spooky. ... This sparked many classic horror films such as Boris Karloff's 1932 The Mummy. ... the epic poem Gilgamesh ...
Pages in category "Poems about ghosts" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Don Juan; H.
One of its lines, Denn die Todten reiten schnell ("For the dead ride fast"), was to be quoted in Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. A later German poem exploring the same subject with a prominent vampiric element was The Bride of Corinth (1797) by Goethe, a story about a young woman who returns from the grave to seek her betrothed:
It included a character named Marmaduke Hammerhead, the famous author of "The Black Crow", who uses phrases like "Nevermore" and "lost Lenore", referring to Poe's poem "The Raven". This parody of Poe was depicted as a drunkard, liar, and an abusive lover.
"A Wine of Wizardry" is a fantasy-horror poem by George Sterling written in 1903 and 1904. When the poem was first published in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1907 with an afterword by Ambrose Bierce it stimulated a nationwide controversy. It was both critically praised and condemned.