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One day I will make a post about La chute de la maison Usher by Jean Epstein, thé world need to know about this film.

Like, imagine :

It's a film produced in 1928 with the most beautiful pictures in black and white I have ever seen (every screenshot I took could be a painting I swear), the actors are incredibles, Jean Debucourt managed to perfectly play Roderick Usher's slowly consuming madness, and there's scenes that will stay in my brain forever (i'm looking at you, scene where Roderick is spiraling through his madness, his pale silhouette on a black screen like he's alone in the house while in reality he's just trapped in his own brain. The music becomes distorted, the screen is shaking and we see the scene in double and the clock is ticking at an abnormal speed ). Epstein managed to adapt Usher's madness that was told by the narrator in the short story, on the screen. He distorted the pictures, showed Usher alone, showed what was his vision and what he heard.

And that's one of the (numerous) reason I love this film

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Tales of Astaeri: Light in darkness

Here it is! The resume of the story me and @lightchemeria are writing! Will be posted entirely on AO3, but I leave the resume here.

Tagging the boys @aldigond and @superfan163

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The biggest eminence in white magic in Astaeri has been killed. His old apprentice, now at the service of the royal family, is sent to investigate. But things don't end as expected when she discovers the true identity of the assassin.

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List of Poe's references in the song Buried Alive by Creature Feature

I love Poe's work and I'm always delighted when I find references of his works. I discovered this song today and while I read the lyrics I noticed some titles of Poe's works, so I decided to do further research and I realised that this song is nearly entirely made of titles of Poe's poems and short stories.

[Intro]

Then the blackness loomed close up against my skin, snuffing out even the evil whiteness to those damming lips, driving all sensibility into retreat, in a mad rush of the senses and the soul into Hades!

refers to the poem « The Pit and the Pendulum » :

The blackness of darkness supervened ; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as the soul into Hades1

[Verse 1]

I forever dream within a dream

refers to the poem « A dream within a dream »

Of a certain city in the sea

refers to the poem « The city in the Sea »

As I walk the valley of unrest

refers to the poem « The Valley of Unrest »

Behind this mask of crimson death

refers to the short story « The Masque of Red Death »

I long for a loss of breath

refers to the short story « Loss of breath »

And a most dire predicament

refers to the short story « A Predicament »

Murders in the rue morgue

refers to the short story « Murders in the Rue Morgue »

Silence and shadows what I adore

[Chorus]

Well I can't explain just how it feels

The thoughts of my premature burial

refers to the short story « The Premature Burial »

Inside this oblong box I lie

refers to the short story « The Oblong Box »

With the hopes I'll be buried alive

[Verse 2]

The oval portrait upon the wall

refers to the short story « The Oval Portrait »

Will someday cause this house to fall

refers to the short story « The Fall of the House of Usher »

The power of words left unsaid

refers to the short story « The Power of Words »

As I join the spirits of the dead

refers to the poem « Spirits of the Dead »

[Chorus]

Well I can't explain just how it feels

The thoughts of my premature burial

refers to the short story « The Premature Burial »

Inside this oblong box I lie

refers to the short story « The Oblong Box »

With the hopes I'll be buried alive

[Spoken]

As they lifted and bore me down, down to a place of blackness and dampness and silence... silence…

refers to the short story « The Pit and the Pendulum » :

[T]all figures that lifted and bore me in silence down – down – still down – till a hideous dizziness oppressed me at the mere idea of the interminableness of the descent.2

[Verse 3 ]

Well, I'm the man who's

Used up

Washed up

Bricked up

refers to the short story « The Cask of Amontillado »

Descent into

Maelstrom

refers to the short story « A descent into the Maëlstrom »

Bedlam

Redrum

Bet the Devil

My head

refers to the short story « Never Bet the Devil Your Head »

Misled

Bloodshed

Heart under the floorboard

Beats for

refers to the short story « The Tell-Tale Heart »

Lenore

refers to the poem « Lenore »

Nevermore

refers to the poem « The Raven »

[Chorus x2]

Well I can't explain just how it feels

The thoughts of my premature burial

refers to the short story « The Premature Burial »

Inside this oblong box I lie

refers to the short story « The Oblong Box »

With the hopes I'll be buried alive

1Edgar Allan Poe, « The Pit and the Pendulum », Volume1 : Tales[1842] New York, J. S. Redfield, «The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe», 1850, p. 4.

2Ibid., p. 5.