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In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film and stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Red Death at a ball.; In Chapter 4 of the 1940 movie serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", the hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and the Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe story inspired this torture device).
Several collections of Poe's prose and poetry followed. The precursor to Tales of Mystery and Imagination was a collection of Poe's works entitled Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humor. The title "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" was first used by "The World's Classics", London, and printed by Grant Richard, 48 Leicester Sq. in 1902.
On Transience" (German: Vergänglichkeit) is a philosophical essay by Sigmund Freud. It consists of a dialogue between Freud and Rainer Maria Rilke in which they discuss the meaning of transience. It was written in November 1915 and published the next year.
Los's Spectre torments him at his smithy in Blake's poem Jerusalem. This image comes from Copy E. of the work, printed in 1821 and in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Spectre is one aspect of the fourfold nature of the human psyche along with Humanity , Emanation and Shadow that William Blake used to explore his ...
"Transience" (short story), by Arthur C. Clarke; TRANSIENT, a US secret program to intercept Soviet satellite transmissions; Transient, a 2005 short film by Australian director Craig Boreham; Transients, a term for some homeless people "Transients", title short story in the 1993 collection Transients and Other Disquieting Stories by Darrell ...
Even with a firewise community discount, the increase for Gary Gilligan's policy is eye-popping — "$5,211.50 due by March 1," he said. That's an 87% jump from a year ago when Gilligan said "we ...
The tone of the poem rejects the optimistic pursuit of pleasure found within Keats's earlier poems and, instead, explores the themes of nature, transience and mortality, the latter being particularly relevant to Keats. The nightingale described experiences a type of death but does not actually die.
Count Gwyneth Paltrow among the legions of Sixteen Candles fans to be shocked by the age of former actor Michael Schoeffling, who played high school heartthrob Jake Ryan in the 1984 film.. On ...