Edgar Allan Poe

I never read graphic novels, it’s just not my thing but Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories have surprisingly held my interest. They don’t keep me interested because I like the stories, the keep me interested because while I’m reading them I’m saying to myself “what the…?”. His stories are really messed up and creepy. A lot of people in class have already read most of the stories and say they don’t like the illustrations because they aren’t how they pictured the stories when they first read them, but I never read any of his stories and I actually really like the illustrations. The illustrations actually help me understand what Edgar Allan Poe is actually talking about, yes some of them are kind of confusing but it’s better than nothing, I think. The Tell-Tale heart is probably my favorite story we’ve read so far because it was the easiest to understand what was going on, and it was really creepy… specially when the girl started to go crazy and was laughing like a psycho. I didn’t really like The Fall of The House of Usher, I didn’t really have any idea what was going on and I got confused as to who was who from the illustrations. I liked the Raven because it was written like a poem unlike the other short stories we’ve read. The Raven flowed well and it was cool to hear it read out loud too. I really didn’t like The Pit and the Pendulum it was just weird and disturbing. I didn’t like the illustrations for this one at all, and I just didn’t like the story as a whole. Overall, the stories are interesting… but not something I would want to read voluntarily. Edgar Allan Poe seems like a messed up guy, his stories kind of freak me out. It makes me wonder what’s going on in his head all of them time and what provokes him to write in such a dark way.