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nuxvomica

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24. Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe

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Mon Apr 20, 2026, 08:31 AM

Apr 20

I had seen the movie Tales of Terror at the Paramount Theater during the Saturday horror show and wanted to read "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", which had been dramatized in the movie. Waiting for our mom to pick us up, my sisters and I ended up in the lobby of the Queensbury Hotel and I passed the time reading that gloriously horrifying book in the fancy surroundings, which seemed almost a subversive activity. I knew that Poe was supposed to be an important writer but I was tickled that despite his importance his stuff was also fun to read.

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