Born on this day – Erica Beer:

Erica Beer

Actress

January 19, 1925 – December 27, 2013

Credits:

Eurocops (1989); Die Zeiten ändern sich (1983); Die Undankbare (1980); Die Münze (1979); Unternehmen Rentnerkommune (1978–1979); Eine kleine Liebe (1976); Zwei himmlische Dickschädel (1974); Münchner Geschichten (1974); Ardéchois Coeur Fidèle (1974); Die Fälle des Herrn Konstantin (1974); Ein Haus voll Zeit (1973); King, Queen, Knave (1972); Der Fall von nebenan (1970); Deep End (1970); Nicht fummeln, Liebling! (1970); They're Too Much (1965); The Counterfeit Traitor (1962); Das Halstuch (1962); Im sechsten Stock (1961); Mit 17 weint man nicht (1960); The Red Circle (1960); So angelt man keinen Mann (1959); Rebel Flight to Cuba (1959); Doctor Without Scruples (1959); Arzt aus Leidenschaft (1959); Verbrechen nach Schulschluß (1959); Your Body Belongs to Me (1959); Stars in der Manege (1959); Meine 99 Bräute (1958); ...und führe uns nicht in Versuchung (1957); Kindermädchen für Papa gesucht (1957); Flucht in die Tropennacht (1957); Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956); Der Glockengießer von Tirol (1956); Schwarzwaldmelodie (1956); Waldwinter (1956); Wunschkonzert (1955); 08/15 - Zweiter Teil (1955); Kopf in der Schlinge (1955); Die goldene Pest (1954); They Were So Young (1954); Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1953); The Last Waltz (1953); Gefangene Seele (1952).

Born on this day – Guy Madison:

Guy Madison

Actor

January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996

Credits:

Red River (1988); Crossbow (1987–1988); The Rebels (1979); Fantasy Island (1979); The Hughes Mystery (1979); Where's Willie? (1978); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Il baco da seta (1974); The Pacific Connection (1974); The Smith Family (1972); Reverend's Colt (1970); Lusty Brawlers (1970); The War Devils (1969); Hell Commandos (1969); A Place in Hell (1969); La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer (1969); Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili (1968); Long Days of Hate (1968); Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968); Bang Bang Kid (1967); The Devil's Man (1967); Return of Django (1967); Payment in Blood (1967); LSD Flesh of Devil (1967); Lasciapassare per l'inferno (1966); Five for Revenge (1966); Legacy of the Incas (1965); L'avventuriero della Tortuga (1965); Kidnapped to Mystery Island (1964); Gunmen of Rio Grande (1964); Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak (1964); Sandokan alla riscossa (1964); Old Shatterhand (1964); Il vendicatore mascherato (1963); The Executioner of Venice (1963); Women of Devil's Island (1962); Sword of the Conqueror (1961); Zane Grey Theatre (1961); Slave of Rome (1961); Death Valley Days (1960); Jet Over the Atlantic (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1959); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); Schlitz Playhouse (1959); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958); Bullwhip (1958); General Electric Theater (1958); The 27th Day (1957); Not One Shall Die (1957); The Hard Man (1957); Wagon Train (1957); Climax! (1955–1957); The Ford Television Theatre (1955–1956); Reprisal! (1956); The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956); Hilda Crane (1956); On the Threshold of Space (1956); The Last Frontier (1955); 5 Against the House (1955); The Command (1954); The Charge at Feather River (1953); Red Snow (1952); Drums in the Deep South (1951); Massacre River (1949); Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven (1948); Honeymoon (1947); Till the End of Time (1946); Since You Went Away (1944).

Born on this day – Patricia Highsmith:

Patricia Highsmith

Writer

January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995

Credits:

Books:

65 Great Tales Of Horror (1981); A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001); A Dog's Ransom (1972); A Game for the Living (1958); A New Omnibus of Crime (2005); A Suspension of Mercy / The Story-Teller (1965); Books to Die For (2012); Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (2005); Chillers (1990); Crime Never Pays (2001); Crime Story Collection (2000); Deep Water (1957); Edith's Diary (1977); Eleven / The Snail Watcher and Other Stories (1970); Escape to Mexico: An Anthology of Great Writers (2002); Fifty Best Mysteries (1993); Found in the Street (1986); Great Baseball Stories (1990); Little Tales of Misogyny (1974); Mermaids on the Golf Course (1984); Murder Intercontinental (1996); Murder On The Railways (2003); Mystery Cats (1991); Nothing That Meets the Eye (1968); Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (2021); People Who Knock on the Door (1983); Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (1966); Ripley Under Ground (1970); Ripley Under Water (1991); Ripley's Game (1974); Simply The Best Mysteries, Edgar Award Winners And Front Runners (1970); Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979); Small g (1994); Sour Tales for Sweethearts (2015); Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters (2002); Strangers on a Train (1950); Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987); The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977); The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983); The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975); The Black House (1981); The Blunderer (1954); The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980); The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night (2003); The Cry of the Owl (1962); The Glass Cell (1964); The Price of Salt / Carol (1952); The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955); The Tremor of Forgery (1969); The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971); The Two Faces of January (1964); The Web She Weaves (1983); This Sweet Sickness (1960); Those Who Walk Away (1967); Verdict of Thirteen (1979).

Movies and television:

15! (2007); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); A Kind of Murder (2016); A Mighty Nice Man (2014); After Dark (1988); Armchair Thriller (1978); Carol (2015); Chillers (1990); Climax! (1956); Cover to Cover (1987); Deep Water (1981 / 2022); Der Geschichtenerzähler (1989); Der Schrei der Eule (1987); Die zwei Gesichter des Januar (1986); Ediths Tagebuch (1983); Enough Rope (1963); Húkanie sovy (1988); ITV Play of the Week (1967); Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1957); Kulturplatz (2006); La rançon du chien (1996); Loving Highsmith (2022); Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990); Muy personal (1987); Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969); Once You Meet a Stranger (1996); Perfect Days (2023); Petits contes misògins (1995); Purple Noon (1960); Read All About It (1978); Ripley (2024); Ripley Under Ground (2005); Ripley's Game (2002); Saturday Review (1986); Strangers on a Train (1951); Studio One (1956); Tales of the Unexpected (1984); Tell Her That I Love Her (1977); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The American Friend (1977); The Book Programme (1976–1980); The Cry of the Owl (1987); The Cry of the Owl (2009); The Glass Cell (1978); The Late Show (1990); The South Bank Show (1982); The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999); The Two Faces of January (2014); The Wednesday Thriller (1965); Tiefe Wasser (1983); Trip nach Tunis (1993); Trossos (1986).

Born on this day - Edgar Allan Poe:

Edgar Allan Poe

Writer

January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849

Credits:

Books and poetry:

100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994); 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); 21 Great Stories (1969); 30 Press Presents: Classic Horror Poems Volume One (2023); 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology (2000); 50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); A Cat of a Different Color (2020); A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (2021); A Cat of Cozy Situations (2020); A Cat of Disdainful Looks (2020); A Cat of Fantastic Whims (2021); A Cat of Feral Instincts (2021); A Cat of Heroic Heart (2020); A Cat of Perfect Taste (2020); A Cat of Strange Lands (2020); A Descent into the Maelstrom (1841); A Few Words on Secret Writing (2014); A Predicament (1838); A Tale of Jerusalem (1832); A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1843); Adventure Stories for Boys and Girls (1985); Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829); American Midnight (2019); Anastatic Printing (1845); Annabel Lee (1849); Behind the Mask - Tales from the Id (2018); Berenice (1835); Birds of Prey (2010); Books to Die For (2012); Classic Cat Stories (2020); Classic Sea Stories (1996); Classic Victorian & Edwardian Ghost Stories (1996); Dark (2000); Detective Duos (1997); Diddling (1843); Dreams and Wonders (2010); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); Echoes Of Terror (1980); Edgar Allan Poe Short Stories (2018); Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works (2007); Eerie Archives Volume 13 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 14 (2013); Eerie Archives Volume 16 (2014); Eerie Archives Volume 2 (2009); Eerie Archives Volume 21 (2016); Eerie Archives Volume 22 (2016); Eerie Archives, Vol. 1 (2004); Eerie Archives, Vol. 10 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 11 (2012); Eerie Archives, Vol. 12 (2013); Eerie Archives, Vol. 3 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 4 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 5 (2010); Eerie Archives, Vol. 8 (2011); Eerie Archives, Vol. 9 (2012); Eleonora (1842); Eureka (1848); Fantastic, Fall 1952 (1952); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); Fossil Lake II (2015); Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard (1836); Ghost Stories (1986); Great Fantasy (1983); Great Law and Order Stories (1990); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Great Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); Great Tales of Terror (1845); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror (1993); King Pest (1835); Landor's Cottage (1845); Letters Until Now Unpublished (1973); Ligeia (1838); Maelzel's Chess-Player (1836); Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them (2000); Masters of the Macabre (1999); Mesmeric Revelation (1844); Metzengerstein (1832); Morella (1835); Morning on the Wissahiccon (1844); Ms. Found in a Bottle (1833); Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841); Night Frights Issue #2 (2021); Nightmares on Congress Street, Part V (2006); Perspectives in Literature: A Book of Short Stories, Vol. 1 (1983); Poetry Comix (2020); Politian: An Unfinished Tragedy (1923); Psychos (2012); Red Sky (2014); Sea Tales of Terror (1974); Sea-Cursed (1994); Selected Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (2016); Shadow (1835); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); Some Words with a Mummy (1845); Stories for the Dead of Night (1957); Tainted: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2008); Tales and Poems (2004); Tales of Mystery (1963); Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1908); Tales of Mystery and Terror (2008); Tales of the Devil (2020); Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840); Tales of the Occult (1989); Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827); The Angel of The Odd (1844); The Balloon-Hoax (1844); The Bells and Other Poems (2017); The Black Cat (1843); The Campfire Collection: Spine-tingling Tales to Tell in the Dark (2000); The Cask of Amontillado (1846); The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1845); The Complete Stories (1993); The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (1849); The Detective Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1979); The Devil in the Belfry (1839); The Domain of Arnheim (1846); The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (2023); The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845); The Fall of the House of Usher (2016); The Giant Book of Zombies (1993); The Gold-Bug (1843); The Great Sea Adventure (2019); The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 3 (2019); The Imp of The Perverse (1845); The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840); The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq (1844); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Mammoth Book of Body Horror (2012); The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1988); The Mammoth Book of Zombies (1993); The Man of the Crowd (1840); The Masque of the Red Death (1842); The Monster Book of Monsters (1988); The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841); The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales (1841); The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842); The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838); The Oblong Box (1844); The Oval Portrait (1845); The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992); The Philosophy of Composition (1846); The Philosophy of Furniture (1840); The Pit and the Pendulum (1842); The Poetic Principle (2000); The Prose Romances of Edgar A. Poe (1843); The Purloined Letter (1844); The Rationale of Verse (2013); The Raven (1845); The Raven and Other Poems (1845); The Raven and Other Selected Poems (2015); The Short Story: 30 Masterpieces (1992); The Spectacles (1844); The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings (1843); The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845); The Ultimate Short Story Bundle (2020); The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall (1835); The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1997); The World's Greatest Horror Stories (2004); Thrillers (1994); Weird Business (1995); Wickedest Show on Earth (1985); William Wilson (1839); Writers: Their Lives and Works (2018); Writing New York (1998); Zombies!: Tales of the Walking Dead (2013).

Movies and television:

1954 (2016); 3 Days Rising (2025); 31 Days of Halloween (2024); A Curious World (2016); A Delirious Eye (2020); A.C. Dupin zasahuje (1970); ABC Weekend Specials (1980); Accidents (2009); Actor's Choice (1970); Actor's Studio (1949); Alexander the Last (2009); Alone (2002 / 2021); Alta comedia (1974); American Masters (1995); American Playhouse (1983); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); America's Book of Secrets (2012); Amontillado (2017); An Cridhe Cabaireach (the Tell-Tale Heart) (2012); An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970); Animus: The Tell-Tale Heart (2015); Annabel Lee (1971 / 2000 / 2009 / 2009 / 2015 / 2022); Annabelle Lee (1921); Annette (2021); Armchair Theatre (1957); Az elitélt (1982); Bad Karma Santa (2016); Bane v Superman: The Movie (2016); Beczka amontillado (1972); Bedtime Stories: Tales of Love and Hate (2024); Bérénice (1954 / 1959 / 1985 / 1988 / 2004 / 2005 / 2007 / 2012 / 2015 / 2025); Black Cat (2025); Bridal Ballad (2021); Bucket of Blood (1934); Buried Alive (1989); Bury Your Dead (2024); Camera Three (1958–1970); Cask (2014); Castle of Blood (1964); Centre Play (1975–1976); Cineficción Radio (2019–2024); City in the Sea (1965); Congestion of the Brain (2007); Continental (1989); Contos do Edgar (2013); Coração Delator (1953); Corazón delator (1999); Creepers (2014); Crepuscolo Veneziano (1970); Cztery razy rezyser (1991); Das verräterische Herz (1954 / 1958 / 1961 / 1979 / 2003); Delirium (2015); Den sorte Kat (1918); Der Rabe (1951 / 2000 / 2021); Der Verrückte, das Herz und das Auge (2006); Der wilde Rabe (1985); Det förrädiska hjärtat (1963); Detective (1968); Diabolic Wedding / Legend of Horror (1971); Die braune Bestie (1914); Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1954); Die Maske des roten Todes (1970); Die schwarze Katze (1980); Dr. Goudron's System (1913); Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (1973); Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993); E.A. Poe's Berenice (2012); E.A.P. (2007); École des vedettes (1960); EDGAR (2024); Edgar Allan Poe (1922); Edgar Allan Poe Centenary (1949); Edgar Allan Poe- del Amor a la Muerte (2017); Edgar Allan Poe's A Dream Within a Dream (2020); Edgar Allan Poe's Berenice (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog (2019); Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's 'Lighthouse' (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper (2016); Edgar Allan Poe's Spirits of the Dead (2018); Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart (2022); Edgar Allan Poe's the Cask (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's the Man of the Crowd (2014); Edgar Allan Poe's the Tell-Tale Heart (2015); Edgar e o Corvo (1983); Eerie Tales (1919); El acomodador (1975); El barril de amontillado (1950); El barril del amontillado (2003); El Cobrador (2012); El corazón delator (1959 / 2001 / 2012 / 2025); El Cuervo (2007); El escarabajo de oro (1999); El Hipnotizador (2017); El hombre de la multitude (1986); El hombre largo (2004); El hombre nervioso (1993); El quinto jinete (1975); El rastro del cazador (2019); El trapero (1965); El trapero (1974); En busca del dragón dorado (1983); Entrañas (2013); Ett fat amontillado (1963); Expediente EV-0043 (2009); Extraordinary Tales (2013); Felicity (1998); Ficciones (1972); Fireside Theatre (1949); Fliegende Schatten (1916); Focus (2011); Fool's Fire (1992); For Annie (2025); Fortunato (1993); Freitag, der 13. - Das unheimliche Haus, 2. Teil (1916); Gamens öga (2014); Gavran (2016); Geierauge (2022); GONE (2025); Great Ghost Tales (1961); Gribbøyet (2015); Hatred of a Minute (2002); Haunting Fear (1990); Havran v panelovém dome (1983); Help Me I'm Dying (2019); Het verraderlijke hart (1996); High Tension (1954); Hilda Muramer (1973); Hip hop prica iz Hrvatske (2008); Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949); Historias para no dormir (1966–1982); Hjertet der sladrede (1971); Hora once (1970–1971); House of Evil (1968); House of Usher (1960 / 2008); Hovid Povid (2020); I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979); Il caso Valdemar (1936); Il cuore rivelatore (1934); Il gatto nero (2003); Imitation: Edgar Allan Poe with Steve Guynn (2015); Imp of the Perverse (1973); Invitation au voyage (2022); It's All Been Done Radio Hour (2023); Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You (2002); Joe's Marionette Theatre (1996); Jungle of Fear (1993); Kingdom by the Sea (2013); Krui-TV (2011); La Barrica del Amontillado (2004); La chute de la maison Usher (1992); La chute de la maison Usher / Histoires extraordinaires (1981); La hora musa (2018); La línea del caos (2003 / 2008); La morte rossa (2009); La notte romantica di Dolly (1920); La résurrection de Barnabé (1953); Lady in the Wall (2018); Lady Usher (2020); Le coeur révélateur (1966); Le Corbeau (2014); Le double assassinat de la rue Morgue (1973); Le fabuleux voyage de l'Oncle Ernest (1999); Le portrait ovale (2001); Le puits et le pendule (1909); Le scarabée d'or (1961); Lenore (2014 / 2021); Les grands détectives (1974); Les Nuits de France Culture (1994); L'étrange collection / The Lighthouse (2025); L'étrange fiancée (1930); Ligeia (1959 / 2013); Lights Out (1949–1952); Los libros (1974); Lover from Beyond the Grave (2006); Lunacy (2005); Manfish (1956); Manicomio (1954); Mask of the Red Death (1971); Masking Threshold (2021); Masque of the Red Death (1989); Master of Horror (1965); Masters of Horror (2007); Masterworks of Terror (1959 / 1960); Masterworks of Terror / Segments: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Cask of Amontillado; The Tell-Tale Heart; (1960); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Mea Maxima Culpa (2010); Mimetic Tales of Ragged Mountain (2010); Mind's Eye (1998); Monodrama Theater (1953); Morella (1999 / 2008 / 2011); Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932 / 1971 / 2023); Music Box (2012); Mutant League Football (1993); Mystery and Imagination (1966–1968); Mystery of Marie Roget (1942); Narciso Ibáñez Serrador presenta a Narciso Ibáñez Menta (1974); Never Bet the Devil Your Head (2007); Nevermore (2014); New Chilling Tales: The Anthology (2019); Night of the Skull (1974); Night Tide (1961); Nightmares from the Mind of Poe (2006); Novela (1978); O Coração Revelador (2018); O Flâneur (2021); Octoberpod AM (2024); On Camera (1955); One Minute Before Death (1972); OperaVision (2019); Operené stíny (1931); Oysters & Pearls (2010); Palabras cruzadas (1977); Pest in Florenz (1919); Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954); Phobies - The Raven (2022); Poe (2025); Poe's Lighthouse (2020); Point of No Return (2010); Ponto da poesia (2011); Portal: Curtain (2013); Portrait Mode (2023); Prelude (1927); Psychotic Breakdown Anthology / Segment The Raven (2022); Puissance de la parole (1988); Pukotina (2013); Puppet Club: Godzilla's Spooky Halloween Tales (2024); Racconti neri (2006); Radio Futura: Annabel Lee (1986); Radio Story Hour (2025); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020–2024); Requiem for the Damned (2012); Revenge in the House of Usher (1983); Saints Row IV (2013); Satanás de todos los horrores (1974); Satisfyingly Scary (2020); Scare on the Air (2022); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2022–2024); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Serce Oskarzycielem (2021); Sevier Thrillers (2022); Shadow: A Parable (2021); Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908); Shoestring Theatre (1960); Short Story Showcase: The Fall of the House of Usher (1976); Silencio (2002); Sombra (2021); Sonic Stories (2022); Sonnets of the soul (2024); Spirits of the Dead (1968 / 2022); Spooky Stories (2020); Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart (2019); Stonehearst Asylum (2014); Suspense (1949–1952); Swing Wedding / The Cuckoo Clock (1950); Syner (2009); Tale of a Vampire (1992); Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1995); Tales of Terror (1962); Television Theater (1957); Tell Tale (2009); Tell-Tale Heart (1947); Tell-Tale Hearts (1972); Terroir (2014); Terror-Creatures from the Grave (1965); The Abyss of the Soul (2021); The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914); The Bells (1913 / 2013); The Best of Zagreb Film - Volume One: The Classic Collection (1999); The Black Cat (1934 / 1941 / 1966 / 1981 / 1989 / 1995 / 2015 / 2021); The Blancheville Monster (1963); The Bottle of Chateau Margaux (2007); The Cask of Amontillado (1979 / 1998 / 2008 / 2014 / 2015 / 2017); The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Cask of Amontillado Redfield Arts Audio Podcast (2022); The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Early Years Vol. 1 (2003); The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2 (2003); The Crime of Doctor Crespi (1935); The Curse of Ligeia (2025); The Dark Eye (1995); The Darkest Hour (2018); The Destroying Angel (1976); The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 / 1950 / 1979 / 1982 / 2006 / 2010 / 2012 / 2021 / 2023); The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (2022); The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century (2002); The fall of Usher's house (2021); The Fantasmagori (2017); The Fear (2001); The Gold Bug (2009); The Golden Beetle (1914); The Graves of Edgar Allan Poe & The Women Who Haunted Him (2022); The Haunted Palace (1963); The Haunting of Morella (1990); The Horror Vault 2 (2009); The Horror Vault 3 (2010); The House of Usher (1989 / 2006 / 2010); The Invitation (2017); The Jester (2025); The Last Ache (2009); The Living Dead (1932); The Man of the Crowd (2013); The Masque of the Red Death (1964 / 1989 / 2006 / 2007 / 2010 / 2014 / 2020); The Merchant of Venice (2004); The Mesmerist (2002); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast Fortunato's Fatal Misfortune (2023); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast the Cask of Amontillado (2023); The Midnight Matinee the Redfield Arts Audio Podcast Valdemar (2023); The Mummy Lives (1993); The Murder of Evelyn Cross (2016); The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914 / 1986); The Night Prowler (2002); The NoSleep Podcast (2018–2023); The Oblong Box (1969); The Oval Portrait (1973 / 1997 / 2011 / 2017); The Pain of Creation (2011); The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983); The Pit (1962); The Pit and the Pendulum (1913 / 1961 / 1964 / 1991 / 2009); The Premature Burial (1962); The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe (2022); The Raven (1912 / 1935 / 1963 / 1970 / 1980 / 2003 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2010 / 2012 / 2014 / 2015 / 2018 / 2020 / 2022 / 2025); The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe) (2016); The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Raven... Nevermore (1999); The Reasoner Report (1974); The Robert Herridge Theater (1960); The Rose King (1986); The Sabbat of the Black Cat (1973); The ScapeCast (2008); The Sealed Room (1909); The Simpsons / Segment: The Raven (1990); The Sphinx (1985); The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether (1972); The Tell Tale Heart (1989 / 1991 / 1999 / 2005 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2022); The Teller and the Tale (1985); The Telltale Heart (1928); The Tell-Tale Heart (1939 / 1941 / 1953); The Telltale Heart (1958); The Tell-Tale Heart (1958 / 1960 / 1961 / 1971 / 1979 / 1986 / 1991 / 2003 / 2004 / 2006 / 2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2014 / 2016 / 2017 / 2022 / 2024); The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe (2021); The Tell-Tale Heart: Sisters (2016); The Tell-Tale Plant (2019); The Tell-Tale Watch (2019); The Tomb (2009); The Tomb of Ligeia (1964); The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967); The Tragic End of Rodney & Madlyn U. (2022); Theatre Fantastique (2014–2017); Thirty2 (2023); This Evening's Discourse (2009); Thorsten Flinck läser rysare (2007); Thriller (1961); Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery (1995); Toby Dammit (1968); Tohtori Tarrin ja professori Featherin menetelmä (2012); Tras la puerta cerrada (1964); Travel with Jack and Kitty: The Podcast (2023); True (2010); Twisted (1997); Two Evil Eyes (1990); Ulalume (2023); Ulalume--A Ballad (2023); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Under (2013); Une vengeance d'Edgar Poë (1912); Usher (2000 / 2023); Valdemar (2000); Valdemar, el homonculus dormido (1977); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Vaya luna de miel (1980); Vrah jsi ty (2003); William Wilson (1999 / 2011); Wishbone (1995); Witchfinder General (1968); Within (2012); World Wide Adventures: Annabel Lee (1969); Wurmloch (2016); Your Favorite Story (1953); Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972).

Born on this day – Sarah Helen Whitman:

Sarah Helen Whitman

Writer

January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878

Credits:

Book:

Hours of Life: and Other Poems

By Sarah Helen Whitman.

First published 1853

Published by Wentworth Press.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0469744774

ISBN-13: 978-0469744776

The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe:

The Sleeper

by Edgar Allan Poe
 
At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And softly dripping, drop by drop,
 
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal valley.
The rosemary nods upon the grave;
The lily lolls upon the wave;
 
Wrapping the fog about its breast,
The ruin moulders into rest;
Looking like Lethe, see! the lake
A conscious slumber seems to take,
And would not, for the world, awake.
 
All Beauty sleeps! – and lo! where lies
Irene, with her Destinies!
Oh, lady bright! can it be right –
This window open to the night?
The wanton airs, from the tree-top,
 
Laughingly through the lattice drop –
The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,
Flit through thy chamber in and out,
And wave the curtain canopy
So fitfully – so fearfully –
 
Above the closed and fringéd lid
’Neath which thy slumb’ring soul lies hid,
That, o’er the floor and down the wall,
Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!
Oh, lady dear, hast thou no fear?
 
Why and what art thou dreaming here?
Sure thou art come o’er far-off seas,
A wonder to these garden trees!
Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress!
Strange, above all, thy length of tress,
 
And this all solemn silentness!
The lady sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep!
Heaven have her in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
 
This bed for one more melancholy,
I pray to God that she may lie
Forever with unopened eye,
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!
My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep,
 
As it is lasting, so be deep!
Soft may the worms about her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold –
Some vault that oft hath flung its black
 
And wingéd pannels fluttering back,
Triumphant, o’er the crested palls
Of her grand family funerals –
Some sepulchre, remote, alone,
Against whose portals she hath thrown,
 
In childhood, many an idle stone –
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne’er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.

Recommended reading:

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1966)

Video by Jack Kost – 2025.

Photograph: Moon Over Trees (2024), by Jack Kost.

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Recommended reading - The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1966):

The Complete Stories and Poems

By Edgar Allan Poe.

First published 1849.

This edition published 1966.

Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc.

Hardcover.

ISBN 13: 9780385074070

ISBN 10: 0385074077

ASIN: 0385074077

Description:

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.