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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:38 am

Personally, my favorite one of his short-stories/poems is The Cask of Amontillado. I assume that if one enjoys horror movies and the morbidity that they bring, one might like Poe's work.

What are your favorite short-stories/poems by Mr. Poe, if any?

Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:41 pm

I prefer H.P. Lovecraft.

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Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:27 pm

One of my favorite childhood relics is a collection of Poe that was given to me by a beloved elementary school teacher(*shrugs* I was an 'advanced reader').
It's a hefty paperback edition, but it's been nearly read to death over the years, so I keep it in safely wrapped in storage. I really should replace it because it's been far too long since I've read Poe, but I do remember being quite fond of his poems.

Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:50 pm

I need to gey myself a collection of his. I only have some handouts from English and some printed-off versions from the internet. Oh, and my fave story of his was in the anthology Fiction.

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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:11 pm

I love Poe especially Annabel Lee.

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:22 pm

My favorite Poe story is prolly The Pit and the Pendulum....or Tell Tale Heart...my favorite Poe piece is

A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:24 pm

I just ordered his collected works from my library. I've read a story here and there and what I've read I like.

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:29 pm

my favorite work by him has to be a tie between the Raven and the Cask of Amontillado, both sent chills down my spine when I first read them (mind you I was merely 12). He is a great author, and there is not a piece of work, that I've read, that I do not like.

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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:45 pm

i love his story The Black Cat

Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:18 pm

I love Poe!!
His mind makes me HAPPY.

I WRITE alot of horror novels.

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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:34 pm

I think I've read most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories, my favorites were the Tell Tale Heart and the Black Cat. Actually, I think that I've read more of his short stories than his poetry, though I have read Annabel Lee and of course the Raven.

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:10 am

I've only read Tell Tale Heart and The Raven from him. My drama program did Tell Tale Heart as wel which was done very well. I would love to read more of his works.

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