blog 11

After reading this, twice, I feel as if this would be his wife, who also was his cousin, who also suffered a horrible death. Poe always has a way of making a simple thing like an illness seem demented and twisted, and how he felt about it the same way. The whole thing about the teeth though got me, maybe he had a fixation about her teeth from young and maybe his only way of remembering her was the teeth, that he had to have.





In every city of every state every room has a tale to tell. Some more grotesque then others, but still the same, like the story, people who take up residence in a room always leave a part of themselves there, whether it be a hair tie or a handkerchief, a part of them will always remain. The lovers in this story couldn't even be seperated by death because of a small piece that one left behind, her fragrance, one that he recognized and went to find. The possession of his mind by her at the end was such a twist! Just goes to show that ghosts are influential and can make the living do what they want.






This is one that I imagined was a story they would tell on late night radio back in the 50's, kind of like the Bradbury one of aliens taking over the planet. I do believe this story had a supernatural aspect in it. After preparing his wife's body and falling asleep, he awoke hours later to find himself trying to listen for something he didn't know what, after a brief encounter with the unknown, he takes out his gun and fires it and finds a panther trying to take his wife's body, after firing the round the panther dropped her by the window where it made its escape and in his wife's mouth was found the fur of the panther, like she was fighting the panther herself. Or maybe she was keeping the panther from attacking her husband who was asleep when it came through the window and was vulnerable prey. Things that make you go hmmmmmm........




Update: After looking at all the aspects of these stories, the madness element, the lost love element and the supernatural element, I would have to say Poe's short most definitely screams madness, as always, and O. Henry's is more definitely supernatural, and Bierce is definitely lost love. Each story had hints of all aspects, but I believe these stand out the most in each of the stories.