January 19th of this year marked the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth, an occasion that appears to have been largely overlooked by the general public. In fact, I wasn't aware of it myself until it was brought to my attention by horrormeister Aaron Christensen (a.k.a. Dr. AC ), who kindly sent me a copy of 1963's The Raven when I told him it was the one Roger Corman/Vincent Price AIPoe I had never seen. He said it was "all about sharing the scare," which is all well and good, but when... read more
