STORY REVIEW: The Duc De L’Omelette
Tim MatassaA duke goes to Hell and plays cards with the Devil to win back his soul.
Plus, Poe goes overboard with the French, and I’m officially worried about this early stretch of his stories.
Short Stories
STORY REVIEW: Metzengerstein
Poe’s first story, about a boy and his horse. Except the boy is a sociopath, the horse is possessed, and there’s some real unhealthy obsession going on.
SHORT STORY REVIEW: The Book of Blood
A handsome young psychic enacts a bold–or stupid–plan in a house haunted by the worst kind of violent ghosts.
They don’t like it. And they want to tell their real stories–even if it means carving their own Book of Blood.