Comments on: Famous Contributers: Edgar Allan Poe

By: Ben Nowman

Ben Nowman — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:51:28 +0000

My most favourite writer of high imagination – inventor of detective story

By: Maurice Christian

Maurice Christian — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:46:50 +0000

Excellent writer. Poe is may favourite writer.

By: Deena Lindstedt

Deena Lindstedt — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:24:49 +0000

If you can get beyond the gruesomeness of the story and reflect on Poe’s talent as a writer, it is more than worth the read.

By: LaVerne Melhorn

LaVerne Melhorn — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:53:06 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me, the interest that humans have in gruesome crime. Poe was perhaps an excellent writer, but his stories are too harsh for me. Mysteries are interesting, but some are too cruel for sensitive folk.

By: Margaret E. Bell

Margaret E. Bell — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:27:17 +0000

Two or thjree years ago, at a used book sale, I bought a copy of a book containing Poe’s “The Black Cat”. The limited edition, named simply “POE” was published by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company for Christmas, 1964. I confess I bought it primarily because of it’s reference to a paper mill in Covington, West Virgina–my home state. (I was born in Wheeling, W.Va.) The book contains 3 additional tales by Poe (The Gold Bug, The Purloined Letter and The Balloon Hoax). The Foreward points to Bradbury Thompson’s “noteworthy” design concepts as representing those more commonly used in the 1840s. I was particularly struck by the design he used for the slip case, still in perfect condition and covered with flying green bats and pigs on an ivory background. The book is full of wonderful illustrations related to each tale. “The Black Cat” has 19 creative graphics.

By: Dixie

Dixie — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:28:53 +0000

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read this. Now I know why he is considered one of the worlds greatest writer.

By: Lawrence A. Liseno

Lawrence A. Liseno — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:02:28 +0000

A thread of thought interlocks with thee to mesh and braid faithfully, forever more.