It seems like reading Edgar Allen Poe stories around Halloween is a rite of passage for students in English classes. He wrote poems such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" and stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", etc.If you have read Poe stories before, which ones have you read and what do you remember of them? Did you like them? How scary/creepy were they? Share your memories of you or teachers reading the works of Edgar Allen Poe.If you have not read Poe or don't remember, describe to me what you expect from a classic horror writer? What kinds of stories do you think we'll be reading? Have you ever read scary stories?
In my english class last year, we read "The Raven" and it wasnt even that scarry. I also have one of his books and I've read the storries in it and they didnt seem to be scarry at all. when we listend to it in english, we listend to it on tape with someone reading in a creepy voice. I'd expect them to be alot scarrier and fun but they seemed kind of borring to me.
I'm expecting us to be reading some that I havnt read before because I've o nly read a few of his storries and that was about 2 years ago. but then again I'm sure that they arnt that scarry because we are reading the storries in school.
I've never read scarry storries- like creepy gross scarry- but I have read books like Mary and Carol Higgins Clark books and other mystery / murder / reality creepy books.