Poe's 200th Birthday

[paeng]

Thanks, Nick!

Aggeliki, I found out that

www.wikio.com

collects news using various keywords and can forward them as news feeds. For example,

http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books...dgar_allan_poe

[hopfrog]

Having completed work on my revised edition of DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR, I am now preparing to write a sequence of related prose-poems/vignettes to be entitled "In Remembrance: Edgar A. Poe," for a fabulous forthcoming collection from Centipede Press, THE MAN THAT WAS USED UP: A CELEBRATION OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. Jerad Walters, publisher and editor of the volume, has compiled a stunning array of classic material. Among the essays are:
"Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Biography," by J. Gerald Kennedy;
"The Fall of the House of Usher," by Arthur Symons;
"The Black Cat," by Aaron Baggio;
"Studies in Classical American Literature," by D. H. Lawrence;
"New Notes on Edgar Poe," by Charles Baudelaire;
"An Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe," by W. H. Auden;
"The House of Usher," by R. P. Blackmur;
"The House of Poe," by Richard Wilber;
"Poe at Home and Abroad," by Edmund Wilson;
"Edgar Allan Poe," by George Bernard Shaw;
"Major Editions and Landmarks of Poe Scholarship," by Scott Peeples, and many many more. There are stunning colour and black-&-white art portfolios by Arthur Rackham, W. Heath Robinson, Fritz Eichenberg, Harry Clarke (!!) and Creepy Magazine! I've hopefully arranged for a reprinting of David Schultz's charming essay on Poe and Lovecraft, "In A Sequester'd Churchyard," which discusses how HPL took guests to St. John's Churchyard, which Poe was known to haunt, and it was there that Lovecraft, Barlow and others, one night, sat on tabletop tombs and wrote acrostic sonnets on Poe's name, which are reprinted in the Schultz article, along with sonnets by Maurice W. Moe and Henry Kuttner.

I am thrilled to be a part of this book, which will be a handsome Centipede hardcover of beautiful design. I think perhaps mine will be the only work of original fiction therein, and thus I am hoping to compose something worthy of Poe and his influence on weird fiction. I will try to write a piece similar to "Uncommon Places," inter-related prose poems and vignettes inspir'd by Poe's life and poetry and prose. I suspect the book will be published at year's end.

[Ligeia]

That sounds amazing Wilum! Thank you for letting us know. Looking forward to the edition.

A.

[paeng]

"Classic Edgar Allan Poe Poem 'Annabel Lee' Adapted into Independent Feature Film"

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...28&newsLang=en

Website

http://www.annabelleemovie.com/

[Mamatas]

The UK magazine The New Humanist has a feature article on Poe, by me. It's called "Gothic Revival" and is a bit of a stunt on my part, as Poe is about as far from a humanist or rationalist as one can get.

[Harksen]

Quote Originally Posted by hopfrog

I am thrilled to be a part of this book, which will be a handsome Centipede hardcover of beautiful design.

That does indeed sound awesome! I will certainly keep my eyes open for that publication, although I don't know if I will be able to afford it. They make beautiful books--but pricey. Understandably, of course, since high quality work is costier to produce.

Oh well, perhaps, with a little luck, I have more money at the end of the year

-Henrik