We’ll be back tomorrow evening with a special Holiday of Horrors edition of Friday Night Features, but in the meantime, here’s wishing you a happy holiday season from all of us at The Year of Halloween. I hope you’ll stay and… Read More ›
Nelson Evergreen
In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice”
In 1835, the Southern Literary Messenger published a short story so shocking, so graphic and ghastly, that outraged letters poured into the office of editor Thomas W. White. Written by a relatively unknown Edgar Allan Poe, the story, Berenice, tells of Egaeus, a young man of family and… Read More ›
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