As always with Poe, I felt definite unease when reading this. Poe will never make it to my list of top authors of all time, and I think that its just a personal choice on my part. Perhaps the closer to Halloween we get, the more "in the mood" I'll be for gloom and doom. Of course, even then I can only imagine it in a fun and scary way, like reading his story to my kids around a campfire at nighttime.
This is a tale about a fool's travels... and I say that only because a drunk man travelling into underground caverns in very ill health possibly to get more to drink would indeed not be wise.
The world was different back in his time.Do you think people wanted to be entertained by reading his dark tales? Was there so little entertainment back then? Why did people read his material?
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