Edgar Allan Poe
This year Edgar Allan Poe turned 200. What better way to celebrate the author who truly started the Horror and Detective genres than by reading his tales and poems.
These two collection are the top of The Eerie Coterie's List for Poe books. The first is a brand new collection of some of his most famous tales and poems of the macabre, where the latter is the definitive collection of his entire work. It is hefty so you may want to look into the Vintage Trade edition for your pocket and keep the larger volume at home to peruse.
Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe (1809-2009) and Happy Halloween to all.
For poetry lovers everywhere
This is the coolest poetry survey ever. Why? Because the three CDs included with the book contain archive recordings of poets reading their own work, that's why. The recordings start in the nineteenth-century and include fifty of the greatest poets. Two never-before-released recordings are included in this volume: Tennyson reads "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and James Joyce reads the "Anna Livia Plurabelle" sequence from Finnegan's Wake. It is truly amazing to think that those voices carry across the years and we can still hear their words today. Poetry Speaks Expanded makes a wonderful gift for any poetry aficionado (including you) and remember - April is always National Poetry Month!
