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"Ms. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe
« Thread Started on Jul 31, 2007, 4:39pm »

Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "Ms. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe, featured in Issue #2.

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If you haven't read the story yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the story, you'll find a link back to this thread.

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Re: "Ms. Found in a Bottle" by Edgar Allan Poe
« Reply #1 on Aug 2, 2007, 1:52pm »

I still like this story. It is one of his earlier efforts and somewhat more miscellaneous in its imagery (a purely relative matter) than his best later works, but it contains a lot of wonderful expressions and images.

It contains a lot of features to be found through his work. There is the introductory biographical comment which is suggestive but sharply limited (see "William Wilson", "The Black Cat" and others); there is the unwilling voyage to the south pole (Arthur Gordon Pym); a whirlpool ("Descent in the Maelstrom"); the use of a mill-wheel for comparison ("The Pit and the Pendulum"); and so on.

The story leaves a great deal unexplained--and goes to prove that explanation is not strictly necessary.

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