Bingeing Edgar Allan Poe : Pt 1: From His Written Works to Silent Screams
Edgar Allan Poe earned nine dollars for The Raven and died broke. Since then, Hollywood has adapted his work more than two hundred times. To kick off October, Bingetology's favorite month for horror binges, we're starting a series on how to binge Edgar Allan Poe.
In Part 1, we go back to the beginning: the silent era, D.W. Griffith, Jean Epstein's avant-garde The Fall of the House of Usher, and the Universal horror years when Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi brought Poe to life in The Black Cat and The Raven. Then we dig into why Poe nearly vanished from Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, to the…
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