... if not eccentric, detective named Erik Lonnrot, and the circumstances and events leading up to his inevitable demise at the hands of a vengeful criminal called Red Scharlach. Red Scharlach knows that Lonnrot is a thinker, and a researcher, and plays upon his deep curiosity and desire to unravel mysteries, luring him to the ... is that of the old cliché; the dumb, flat-foot cop and the brilliant detective. Red Scharlach is every bit the embodiment of cartoonish evil, complete with a cheesy accent, and an eye patch. The murders are committed behind the curtain, as it were, depicted to the...

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... how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. I loved the old man. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!"" (Poe 1).3 Here, the protagonist is expressing his fear for the old man's eyes and it led him into kill the old man. Normally people commit murder ... " is another reflection of Poe as the Montresor got angry and vowed for revenge only because of thousand injuries and insult from Fortunato. In the "The Masque of the Red Death"" stated "The Red Death' had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been...

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... description on the house as well declares the dismal tone. The house, surrounded only by "a few white trunks of decayed trees " and "a black and lurid tarn, " with "bleak walls...vacant eye-like windows...a few rank sedges, was mere and isolated. Upon seeing these "sternest natural images of the desolate and the terrible," what was aroused to the narrator "as he ... of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face... " referring to the general appearance of a vampire. Another but not the least one is the human-like mansion with its "eye-like window" red-litten:" as mentioned in Roderick Ush...

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... following list: "The Fall of the House of Usher "The Pit and The Pendulum" "The Tell-Tale Heart" "To Helen" "The Bells" "The Black Cat" "Eureka" "The Masque of the Red Death" (Gothic, Internet) (see Appendix T for dates) It is a common misconception that Poe was entirely "dark" and all of his works mirrored that. Poe had a humorous side, which shined in ... dislike." (Society, Internet) Another criticism expresses the concern (neither positive nor negative) of the apparent recurring themes in Poe's works. Obvious repeated, sometimes overused, themes are the use of the eye, the heart, an...

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... observable change came over the mental disorder of [Roderick]....He roamed from chamber to chamber....The pallor of his countenance had assumed...a more ghastly hue [and] the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.... [He gazed] upon vacancy for long hours, in an attitude of the profoundest attention, 3 as if listening to some imaginary sound" ("House of Usher" 274). The ... , fled the house. The story ends with the narrator only looking back once as he flees and when he does he sees the house of Usher cave in, revealing a blood-red moon just behind the settling rubble. "The Fall o...

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