Edgar Allan Poe can be lauded as a major inspiration for many innovative artists, genres, and movements, from horror fiction to the music of Maurice Ravel. He has also been a major inspiration for Weird Studies, particularly his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." In this episode, JF and Phil try to pinpoint just what it is about this tale that is so compelling, discovering in the process that whatever it is cannot be pinpointed. Instead, the haunting mood of the story emerges from the peculiar arrangement of all its parts, becoming something entirely new.
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References
\n\nEdgar Allan Poe, \u201cThe Fall of the House of Usher\u201d
\nEdgar Allan Poe, \u201cThe Masque of the Red Death
\nKlangfarbenmelodie, musical technique
\nEdgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle"
\nGraham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy
\nLovecraft without adjectives
\nWeird Studies, Development of Circle vs. Spiral: Wheel of fortune, Blade Runner, The Star, Birhane
\nMatei Calinescu, The Five Faces of Modernity
\nWeird Studies, Episode 101 on \u2018In Praise of Shadows\u2019
\nPhanes, deity
\nJames Herbert, The Dark
\nJoseph Adamson, \u201cFrye and Poe\u201d
\nLucien L\xe9vy-Bruhl, French anthropologist
\nJames Machin, Weird Fiction in Britain
\nEdgar Allan Poe, \u201cEureka\u201d