Edgar Allan Poe vs Stephen King

 This felt necessary

  

South Park and Edgar Allan Poe

South Park, Season 17, Episode 4: "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" 

Summoning Edgar Allan Poe

Call Me Nightpain

Edgar Allan Poe is summoned by the Goth and Vamp kids at South Park Elementary to help them save their friends/the world from becoming emo. I think this is an interesting portrayal of Poe; he's summoned as the "spiritual progenitor" of the goth and vamp kids, but doesn't really care about goths, vamps, or emos for that matter. It's also rather unflattering. 

-Kate

Lovecraft and Supernatural

 

This is another incarnation of Lovecraft from another one of my favorite shows in which his literature verges on reality.

-Alexia

Hatecraft in Scooby-Doo

  This is one of my favorite cartoons ever, and one of the best versions of Scooby-Doo and I've always thought their version of Lovecraft was very funny as I am not a fan of his on principle. 

   -Alexia

Reanimator Trailer

 When we first read Loss of Breath I was reminded of this movie. Somehow I was unaware that it is based on a H.P Lovecraft story!(obviously I hadn’t watched the trailer before) This movie is schlocky, campy, and has iconic practical effects. Maybe not the existential horror I associate Lovecraft with but certainly a crazy time 

-Brooklyn 

Hostel Trailer

 

Mr. Beast - 50 Hours Buried Alive (Inspired by Pan)

 

 When I read The Tell-Tale heart for the first time in sophomore year of high school, we watched this video. I remember being terrified, but upon a rewatch it's not that bad. Minor flash/jumpscare warning for those of you who (like me) don't handle horror very well. 

-Pan

 Here's a video of the Gilmore girls episode at the Poe reading! I couldn't find a video of the jokes at the Inn, but the episode is on Netflix if you have access to that and want to watch it!

-Pan

 This was one of the first memes I saw of Edgar Allan Poe and I thought it would be fitting as reading The Tell-Tale Heart will be coming up soon. It's also one of my favorite Poe stories even though a short film about it terrified me in 8th grade. 

                                            -Alexia

Gilmore Girls and Poe

 

Gimore Girls: Season 3, Episode 17 : A Tale of Poes and Fire

The Edgar Allan Poe Society comes to Stars Hollow and stays at Lorelai's Inn. Lorelai makes a few jokes to the guests, “I can assure you there are no human body parts buried in the floor of your room,” and the Society hosts a reading in the Town Hall. At the reading, two Poe impersonators show up expecting to read ‘The Raven’, which almost causes a physical altercation, but simply results in two back-to-back readings of the poem. The main bit of this scene is the characters complaining about how long the poem is, asking each other how many “nevermore”-s they have left to go, and even once saying, “Poor Poe suffered so much, and now we suffer with him.” As the town hall comes to a close, the Poe impersonators try to out-Poe-fact each other, before one gives up and walks away. A character who has a running bit for changing jobs prints T-shirts that say “faux poes foes”. 

This TV show’s humor lives off of ‘high-brow’ references to history, literature, and pop culture, so a few of the monologues in this episode have references to Poe’s work, mainly “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Due to the unfortunate fact that I am not a millennial, and was watching this show pretty far after it came out (as well as being a kid when I watched it), I missed a lot of these pop-culture references. Poe scorns this model of dropping references in writing in "How to write a Blackwood article”; I wonder how he would feel about his becoming of someone to reference. 

Upon a rewatch of this episode, there is less of a Poe focus than I remember, with the main plot details of this episode being Lorelai’s Inn catching on fire and Rory becoming jealous of her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend. However, it was still enjoyable to watch. 

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