Ligeia

...letter he retracted this statement. There has been some debate that Poe may have intended "Ligeia" to be a satire of Gothic fiction. The year that "Ligeia" was published, Poe published only two other prose pieces: "Siope-A Fable" and "The...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Glanvill, Opium, Philip Pendleton Cooke, Hallucination, and Gothic fiction

...italics, which is a poor choice visually. A number of well-known authors are featured in this collection. In Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" the narrator's drugged-induced hallucinations bring into question whether he is really seeing his dead...

In this article: Otto Penzler, The Vampyre, John Polidori, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Kim Newman, The Hound, Popsy, and Hallucination

...of nocturnal visions and the sinister presence of a cat (who may be inhabited by the spirit of Ligeia) cause him distress. Ultimately he must face the spirit of Ligeia and resist her or perish. Howard Thompson in the New York Times of...

In this article: The Tomb of Ligeia, Vincent Price, Roger Corman, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Shepherd, God, American International Pictures, Robert Towne, and John Westbrook

...in the films Waiting..., Catch Me If You Can and Accepted. Doubleday is currently working on the independent feature film Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia shooting in St. Louis, MO & the thriller Blue World scheduled for a late 2008 release.

In this article: Jan Kaitlin Len Doubleday, Edgar Allan Poe, Accepted, Waiting..., Catch Me If You Can, Without a Trace, and St. Louis, MO

...by his side". The poem plays an important symbolic role as part of its inclusion in the short story "Ligeia." The poem is written by Ligeia as she is dying, though it is actually recited by the narrator, her husband. Because it...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, God, New York World, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, Our Mutual Friend, and Mike Mignola

...a American poet, that Farmer is very appreciative and that she has evoked in many interviews. One verse of the song containing the word "Ligeia" which refers to the name of Poe's fairy tale published in 1837 in the review The American Museum.

In this article: Allan, Edgar Allan Poe, Laurent Boutonnat, Degeneration, En concert, Dessine-moi un mouton, Redonne-moi, and Plus grandir

...an addiction to the painkiller Demerol in court papers. They both explored the pull of drugs in their work. Here's Poe's narrator from "Ligeia," seeing visions of his dead lover: "In the excitement of my opium dream (for I was habitually...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Jackson, Nevermore, Thriller, Peter Pan, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, and Vincent Price

...of antagonism, guilt, or resentment. In "Morella," for example, the dead wife reincarnates as her own daughter, only to die. In "Ligeia" the first wife returns from the dead and destroys the narrator's new love. Ultimately, the message in...

In this article: Eleonora, Edgar Allan Poe, Morella, Antagonism, and Ossian

...Poe and his works range from the subtle (a short recitation of "The Raven" in The Crow) to the blatant (the upcoming Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia sticks the author's name right in the title, even if the plot of the film doesn't coincide with the...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, Annabel Lee, The Tell-Tale Heart, Matthew Pearl, E mail, God, and The Crow

...are a number of other works, lesser-known but still distinctively Poe. "A Descent Into the Maelstrom," "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Ligeia" may not have the same name recognition as his more famous stories, but they are no less...

In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, All rights reserved, William Wilson, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Cask of Amontillado