#Tales of Mystery and Imagination

[weirdlookindog]

“Say, rather, the rending of her coffin”

Harry Clarke (1889-1931) - The Fall of the House of Usher

illustration for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, 1923

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[godzilla-reads]

My friend got me a very cool birthday present today 😍

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Harry Clarke, 1923

[cinematic-literature]

A Haunting in Venice (2023) by Kenneth Branagh

Book title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1902) by Edgar Allan Poe

[recordswithgooglyeyes]

The Alan Parsons Project – “Tales Of Mystery And Imagination“

submitted by @pete.hawthorne

[cosmonautroger]

Alan Parsons Project, Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, 1976

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

[nochilleftb3hine]

The Alan Parons Project -- The Cask of Amontillado

You who are rich, and whose troubles are few

May come around to see my point of view

What price the crown of a king on his throne

When you're chained in the dark all alone?

[scottguy]

Just in time for 🎃

The Alan Parsons Project (1st album) idea was to turn Edgar Allen Poe's writing into modern music. It's genius.

Two of the best song below...

and

The System of Dr. Tarr & Professor Feather... a story about letting the 'crazy' people run the asylum.

(This song really rocks and was the encore song when they played live in my area.)

(I picked the videos with the best visuals since the music is the same. )

[laetitia-artworks]

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, from Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Harry Clarke (1923)

[quandmeme]

The Alan Parsons Project, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

[weirdlookindog]

Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Pan Books, 1961)

[musicandoldmovies]

The Alan Parsons Project - The Raven

From the album Tales of Mystery and Imagination

An album that was stolen from me.

[new-albums-daily]

The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)

11 tracks, 40 min 40 sec*

Rating: 9/10

Top Track: (The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether

Something my dad recommended to me a while back today with this retelling of some classic Edgar Allen Poe works. I know 2 Alan Parsons Project songs going into this one, neither of which are on this album. I should also go ahead and note that I'm listening to the original 1976 version, so not the 87 remix with Orson Wells narration.

*Another quick note to add re: tracks here. The Fall of the House of Usher is one of these where it's technically kind of one track with five distinct parts, but since Spotify splits it into its parts, 11 is the track count for this album. Both components will be considered, as a whole and separate.

Absolutely fantastic album. After hearing this I can say that combining this band with Poe just...makes sense. In a way that I can't even really describe. This all works incredibly well as one unit, and I'm familiar with most of the works referenced here and they work with the way my brain thinks of them. I have a pretty nitpicky reason for taking off a point from a 10 here, which lies in the 5 tracks spanning the Fall of the House of Usher. See, those are really fantastic within the context of each other and the rest of the album, but as one unit or as 5 individual tracks they kind of fall apart for me. Other than that piece, though, absolutely wonderful album. Favorite tracks were The Raven and To One in Paradise.

[vhstve591]

Edgar Allan Poe...with a progressive rock twist.