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atomic-chronoscaph · 6 months

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Poe - art by Greg Hildebrandt (1986)

#greg hildebrandt #stories and poems by edgar allan poe #horror art #gothic horror #the raven #the cask of amontillado #the fall of the house of usher #the black cat #ligeia #hop frog #dream-land #a descent into the maelström #the facts in the case of m. valdemar #the premature burial #morella #the masque of the red death #unicorn publishing house #1980s #1986

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drchucktingle · 4 months

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Howdy Dr Chuck! It's kinda late but I keep wondering what was up with that deer on the Camp Damascus archery range? I think Rose noticed something was stuck to it or dragging something but I don't think I ever found what was going on and I wondered if you might have an answer you're willing to share? Ps. I LOVED the book and got Bury Your Gays pre ordered!

CAMP DAMASCUS SPOILERS TO FOLLOW: this is a funny one because when i wrote this part i thought it was obvious but i get asked ALL THE TIME about this (maybe most common question about camp damascus besides what is saul listening to in his big scene). so you are NOT ALONE in wondering.

really goes to show how delicate balance is as author when you are wondering HOW MUCH TO SAY in the text. i think my balance was WAY OFF and you are correct in wondering, or maybe its good to keep as a little mystery i do not know

anyway here is answer: as with NEWS ARTICLE about someone finding a worm in the woods at the beginning of book, the 'ligeian worms' are to blame. during breeding program of worms we know that SOME still produce a natural lifecycle while others have had aging bred out of them. those flies escape into the woods from the lab and then grow into ligeian worms that kinda just make this dang timeline their home.

so the deer was confused from its memory loss and the 'deflated football' hanging from its leg was a ligeian worm that had not retracted its dang proboscis. there are a few later on that do this with dr smith it is not common but it happens.

ALSO in case you were wondering they are called ligeian worms because they are a reference to THE CONQUEROR WORM by edgar allen poe but more specifically the story where this poem appears called LIGEIA about a woman with the same name. this story has heavy themes of transformation and most importantly MEMORY LOSS

also since it is left up to the reader to question wether or not the worms and the demons are the same species, i will say THEY ARE NOT.

they are two different natural species from the same other timeline, which is a place we would call hell

THANK YOU FOR ASKING this is great question. LOVE IS REAL

#ligeia #edgar allen poe #chuck tingle #queer horror #tingleverse #camp damascus

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 3 months

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Vincent Price as Verden Fell

Tomb of Ligeia (1964) dir. Roger Corman

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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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There is no exquisite beauty, […] without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe, The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; from ‘Ligeia’

#edgar allan poe #the penguin complete tales and poems of edgar allan poe #ligeia #prose #on beauty #venus in aquarius

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noovorous · 2 months

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I'm lucky to be experiencing prose of Edgar Allan Poe for the first time those days and it strikes me how precise his macabre tales are. How much they are like an essence of a novel, crystalised form of prose just like haiku is of poetry. A complete story, each with it's own characteristic mood, atmosphere, feel, all within more or less ten pages. I know immediately that I will be returning to individual short stories when under influence of a certain caprice, something that is much harder to achieve when looking for a specific paragraph of a novel.

#aestheticism #art #literature #edgar allan poe #short stories #gothic literature #ligeia #cask of amontillado #the black cat #the tell tale heart

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soracities · 1 year

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In beauty of face no maiden ever equalled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream.

Eddgar Allan Poe, from “Ligeia”

#q #lit #quotes #prose #edgar allen poe #ligeia #reading #m #x

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marzipanandminutiae · 1 year

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The Lesbian Looming Omnipresent Spectre of My Husband's Brilliant, Beautiful, Universally-Adored First Wife Eats Me Out, by Chuck Tingle

#ligeia #rebecca #gothic lit #chuck tingle #is this anything

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ignis--fatuus · 1 month

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Nobody: 60s/70s Horror Movie Candles:

Seriously what is is with old 60s movies and having these candles????? What was the chokehold red twisted candles had on the 60s Hollywood Horror scene? Did they order too many? Was the prop department desperate to get rid of them? Why were they in every movie?

What dirt did the candle company have on the horror genre?

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godzilla-reads · 30 days

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I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia.

—Edgar Allan Poe

#godzilla reads #ligeia #edgar allan poe #book blog #short stories #booklr #bookworm #reading

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lilywhiterabbit · 25 days

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you can't spell necromancer without romance

you can't spell resurrection without erection

#dungeon meshi #chainsaw man #ligeia #mary shelly's frankenstein #what else am i missing

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myscalesofjustice · 9 months

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I hope a Ligeia character debuts in Nevermore someday. In all likelihood, her Spectre would have the power of possession, and an arc where students are experiencing an epidemic of black outs would be terrifying.

#Nevermore #Nevermore Webtoon #Edgar Allan Poe #Ligeia

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disco-tea · 4 months

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Okay I’m so upset I’M SO UPSET. Because we ALWAYS hear about Lenore or Annabelle Lee but I feel like we never hear about LIGEIA. Okay the narrator was such a SIMP for his wife, Ligeia. His impossibly smart, eldritchly beautiful wife (who was probably an alien tbh.) okay he was such a simp. And you know what? She loved him JUST as much. She was madly in love with him. She loved him so much that when she died she poisoned his second wife to death and possessed her dead body just so she could be with him again. Now THAT is some fucked up horrific gothic romance Adam’s family shit. I’m obsessed

#edgar allen poe #ligeia

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 1 month

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