I also read Poe, editor Ellen Datlow's collection of stories inspired by Baltimore/Philadelphia/Boston/London's very own Edgar Allan Poe. Some of the stories are obviously and directly Poe inspired, several from the Masque of the Red Death but some only seem Poe in afterthought (or not until you read the explanatory notes). There are also some of genre short story shortcomings, an end that comes too quickly, an end that changes everything but would have been better without it, a style so arch that it's difficult to understand anything of the story but on the whole it's a worthwhile anthology as are any of Datlow's.
The White Cities
I also read Poe, editor Ellen Datlow's collection of stories inspired by Baltimore/Philadelphia/Boston/London's very own Edgar Allan Poe. Some of the stories are obviously and directly Poe inspired, several from the Masque of the Red Death but some only seem Poe in afterthought (or not until you read the explanatory notes). There are also some of genre short story shortcomings, an end that comes too quickly, an end that changes everything but would have been better without it, a style so arch that it's difficult to understand anything of the story but on the whole it's a worthwhile anthology as are any of Datlow's.
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