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12 Oct 2014:
This compendium of essays by crime writers of their favourite books in the genre is often personal and always fascinating, writes Stephanie Merritt
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7 Sep 2014: This Blu-ray version with plenty of extras does full justice to Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation, writes Philip French
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15 Jun 2014:
While Gordon Getty's treatment of the story was dull and dramatically plodding, Robert Orledge's economic and evocative version was far more involving, writes Andrew Clements
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6 Jun 2014:
Rocky Horror Show enters the Tardis, plane crazy antics, brothers drive Frozen parody and a very smart dog. By Janette Owen
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4 Feb 2014:
Chris Power: He's no prose stylist, but the psychological territory mapped by his tales set a fictional compass still in wide use
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29 Jan 2014:
From Wilkie Collins to Agatha Christie, thriller writer Adrian McKinty uncovers his favourite 'impossible murder' novels
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Quiz,
16 Jan 2014:
Ernest Shackleton reached the limit of his expedition to the south pole on 16 January 1909. Celebrate with a gruelling test on literature's coldest climes
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25 Nov 2013:
I'm only a tenth of the way through my Guardian/Observer list, and as I revisit old favourites from week to week I find my contemporary verdict refracted through past readings
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24 Nov 2013:
Edgar Allan Poe's only novel – a classic adventure story with supernatural elements – has fascinated and influenced generations of writers, says Robert McCrum
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30 Oct 2013: Sam Jordison: Many of his peers found his writing pretty hard to stomach. But, like us, they still read it
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21 Oct 2013:
Expecting thrills and scares, many of us in the reading group have thus far found Poe's storytelling hypnotic only in the sleep-inducing sense
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16 Oct 2013:
Edgar Allan Poe's stories may have been dismissed by Henry James and TS Eliot, but they marked the birth of a genre
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14 Oct 2013:
Originally published in the Guardian on 14 October 1976: Misunderstood by his countrymen, the American gothic writer won the admiration of European intellectuals
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9 Oct 2013:
Sam Jordison: With Halloween beckoning, what better way to spend the month than delving into the dark arts of the American author?
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Graphic,
7 Aug 2012:
The grisly deaths he inflicted on his characters helped make Edgar Allan Poe the master of the macabre. Adam Frost, Jim Kynvin and Jamie Lenman investigate how he killed them off
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