In the newest podcast(direct download link) from vintagehorror.com, there is some really beautiful string music playing behind the narrator as he reads Poe's "manuscript found in a bottle" What is it? [more inside]
posted by tylerfulltilt on Oct 17, 2009 - 5 answers

Can someone help me translating this Poe quote into Latin? [more inside]
posted by Tchad on Jul 10, 2009 - 9 answers

Is there a name for what Poe did in The Raven where there's lots of long, vowel sounds? And is there anybody in music writing lyrics in a similar fashion? [more inside]
posted by low affect on Dec 28, 2008 - 8 answers

What is the english translation of the following latin passage derived from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum?" Impia tortorum longos hic turba furores Sanguinis innocui, non satiata, aluit. Sospite nunc patria, fracto nunc funeris antro, Mors ubi dira fuit vita salusque patent. [Quatrain composed for the gates of a market to he erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris.] [more inside]
posted by meta.mark on Nov 1, 2007 - 3 answers

Are there any makers of PoE (power over ethernet) switches that are themselves powered over ethernet? [more inside]
posted by warhol on Jun 5, 2006 - 1 answer

What version of Poe's "Hey Pretty" do I have? [more inside]
posted by kimota on Jun 5, 2006 - 10 answers

Many years ago, (late 1950s?) I read in Yankee magazine that the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado" was based on an event in Poe's life. The article went something like this: Poe had joined the Army and was stationed at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor. While he was there he heard a tale about a very unpopular officer at the fort that had been walled into a room by some of his men and left to die. When the fort was modified for harbor defense in WW1, the engineers saw a room indicated in the original drawings that did not seem to exist. They broke through the wall at the point where the drawings showed a room and found a skeleton dressed in an Army uniform of the 1830s. Can this be verified or is it BS?
posted by Raybun on Jan 27, 2006 - 10 answers