The sound effects library had some fairly inadequate samples so they scoured the newspapers to see where weather conditions might be more promising. When they were recording this particular piece, it was at the height of Summer in August in London and there was no probability of such weather conditions. It seemed obvious that as part of the Fall of the House of Usher track, they would need the sound effect of thunder and lightning. Compared to Gaudi and Freud whose work enthralled Eric, but whose lives were mundane by comparison, he found Edgar Allan Poe doubly inspirational. He regards Edgar Allan Poe as probably his greatest musical inspiration because not only were his works fascinating, his life was even more intriguing. Eric was struck with the idea that if this were true, then perhaps an album inspired by his work might not lose money either and this was the genesis of Tales of Mystery and Imagination.Įric has always been inspired by great creative minds, whether authors, architects or psychoanalysts. Eric was far too young to see the movies, but was intrigued by this forbidden fruit and when later in the 60s, he attended some evening marketing classes, in attempting to describe the new marketing concept, the lecturer mentioned a marketing statistic, namely that no film made from Edgar Allan Poe’s work had ever lost money. He particularly remembers The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Eric recalls walking to school in Glasgow, he had to pass various cinemas which often had lurid Edgar Allan Poe film posters on display. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination feature With an afterword by Jonty Claypole.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Collectively, these tales represent the best of Edgar Allan Poe's prose work before his premature death in 1849.

'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and 'The Mystery of Marie Roget' we find the origins of modern detective fiction. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written.

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