-
- Follow The Passing Place on WordPress.com
-
-
-
-
-
-
Recent Posts
- Lovecraft and ice-cream
- Blyton and Lovecraft
- Dear Edgar 66 ~ Landor’s Cottage
- Nailing my colours to the mast
- Dear Edgar 65 ~ X-ing a Paragrab
- Dear Edgar 64 ~ Von Kempelen and His Discovery
- Dalek humour
- Dear Edgar 63 ~ Hop Frog
- Dear Edgar 62 ~ Mellonta Tauta
- Oh what convoluted webs we do weave
- A Tale of Two covers
- Cosy dragons and haunted beds
- Music to Write by ~ Female Rage Edition
- Dear Edgar 61 ~ The Domain of Arnheim
- Interesting Folk…
- Lucifer Redux
- Cover Stories
- Dear Edgar 60 ~ The Cask of Amontillado
- Dear Edgar 59 ~ The Sphinx
- The Creation of Strange Worlds
Tags
- #amwriting
- #scifi
- #selfpub
- 2020quotes
- amediting
- amreading
- amreadingscifi
- amwriting
- amwritingscifi
- amwritingsteampunk
- authors
- book-review
- bookblog
- bookcovers
- bookreview
- bookreviews
- book reviews
- books
- booksale
- cthulhu
- Dear Edgar
- depression
- Edgar Alan Poe
- fantasy
- fiction
- goodreads
- Hannibal Smyth
- harveyduckman
- horror
- humanity
- humour
- indie
- IndieApril
- indiebooks
- indienovels
- indieoctober
- indie publishing
- indiereads
- indiewriter
- Lovecraft
- lovecraftian
- mentalhealth
- music
- mythos
- nanowrimo
- newbooks
- newreads
- novels
- Nyarlathotep
- opinion
- pagan
- Poe
- politics
- quotes
- reading
- reads
- reviews
- sciencefiction
- scifi
- scifiscarbrough
- self-publishing
- short stories
- steampunk
- steampunk fantasy
- stories
- supernatural
- urbanfantasy
- wordpress
- writer
- writers
- writerslife
- writing
- writingcommunity
- writingtip
- writingtips
Follow me on Facebook
-
Tag Archives: Edgar Alan Poe
Dear Edgar 64 ~ Von Kempelen and His Discovery
By April 1849 our dear Edgar was a widower finding his comfort once more in the bottle. Privately he had started becoming increasingly unstable after Viginia’s death in January 1847. Yet publicly he had never been so successful. The initial … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, retro book reviews, reads, Poe
Tagged writing, amreading, books, reads, fiction, Edgar Alan Poe, book reviews, literature
Leave a comment
Dear Edgar 49 ~ The Angel of the Odd
The game of darts, as we know it today was, as many such things are, invented in a British pub. The first ever darts tournament took place in 1926 in ‘The Red Lion’ in Wandsworth. In fairness, while that was … Continue reading
Posted in Dear Edgar, Poe, reads
Tagged amreading, book-review, books, Edgar Alan Poe, fantasy, reading, reads, writing
1 Comment
Dear Edgar 43 ~ Diddling
‘Diddling’, or to give it it’s original title ‘Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences’ is by way of a humorous essay pretending to be an academic work, rather than a story. It is certainly a fun little read, as long as one accepts this central conceit. Continue reading
Posted in amreading, Dear Edgar, humour, Poe, reads
Tagged #amwriting, amreading, books, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, fiction, reading, reads, writing
Leave a comment
Dear Edgar ~ 24 The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
In 1831, some 8 years before dear Edgar put pen to paper to scribe this tale, Reverend William Miller predicted the world would end with the second coming of Christ within thirteen years, and thus founded his own religious movement Millerism. As the date of what he termed ‘The Second Advent’ approached his movement grew from a small obscure movement in the early 1830’s to becomes a large national movement of up to half a million people. While Miller himself refused to nail down the actual date most became convinced its would be mid April 1844. Continue reading
Posted in amreading, Goth, horror, opinion, Poe
Tagged #amwriting, amreading, author, books, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, Poe, reading, reads, writerslife, writing
2 Comments
Dear Edgar #19 The Devil in the Belfry
Order is a wonderful thing, there is a genuine joy to waking up on a morning and knowing there will be breakfast in the cupboard, because there is always breakfast in the cupboard. There is a safety and some would … Continue reading
Posted in books, Dear Edgar, Goth, horror, reads, retro book reviews
Tagged amreadinghorror, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, reading
Leave a comment
Dear Edgar #18 Blackwood
‘How to Write a Blackwood Article’ and ‘A Predicament’ are two parody’s written by Poe and published in the same edition of the magazine, American Museum. One serves as an introductory piece for the other and in effect they form … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, books, Dear Edgar, Poe, pointless things of wonderfulness
Tagged amreading, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, Poe, reads, sciencefiction, writing
Leave a comment
Dear Edgar #17 Ligeia
And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness. Man doth not yield himself to the … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, Dear Edgar
Tagged books, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, edgar-allan-poe, gothic, horror, Poe, reads, writerslife, writing
2 Comments
Dear Edgar 16: Silence, a fable
“It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.” It is not unreasonable to say that a good half of our Dear Edgar’s out put over the years was poetry. As … Continue reading
Posted in opinion, Poe, reads, retro book reviews
Tagged amreading, Edgar Alan Poe, Poe, poetry, reads
1 Comment
Dear Edgar~15: Mystification
The editorship of the Richmond Examiner in the 19th century was something of a dangerous occupation. When someone took exception to an editorial they often expressed there views in pointed fashion. Thomas Ritchie, who founded the paper in 1804 witnessed … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, book reviews, Dear Edgar, opinion, Poe, reads
Tagged amreading, books, Dear Edgar, Edgar Alan Poe, reads, writing
Leave a comment
Dear Edgar ~14: Four Beasts in One
‘Glory of the East,’ thou art in danger of mastication! This is clearly either on of the finest sentences ever written, or a really odd typo to find in the middle of an Edgar Allen Poe story. So lets go … Continue reading
Posted in amreading, book reviews, Dear Edgar, Poe, reads, retro book reviews
Tagged amreading, books, Edgar Alan Poe, Poe, reads, writing
1 Comment
The Passing Place 