Love this channel!!! ❤🎉

I love my Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Agatha Christie stories and all number of Victorian through Edwardian mystery, Gothic and suspense stories. But yes, I cringe at the number of times the "n" word is casually thrown out there or cultural stereotypes in general, but...I think I draw the line at rewriting an author's work. Why rewrite history? It's written in the realism of the times. 🤷 Now do some fan fiction if you like, but leave the original work alone. I'd love to hear an actual published author's opinion on it. 🤔 Hollywood has certainly taken liberties. 🤷

I'm just glad I've found a KZbin channel that can nerd out about S Jackson! ❤

I would love videos where you just read classic literature, and have Mouse on your lap. I would watch them for hours.

That makes me want to go and read The Bloody Chamber again - I'd forgotten how delicious the prose was.

My theory is that Penguin announced they would edit the Dahl books so people would go out and buy the books before they were edited and then a week later announced they would release edited and classic editions, as they likely planned to in the first place to make a profit and recirculate a lot of the books

I adore The Raven, but Annabel Lee just barely wins out. I find his tender heartbreak so moving, I fell in love the moment I read it 18 years ago in class. Love your content by the way, as a fellow English Major it’s lovely to see this sort of thing! ❤

Awesome name for a channel! My two loves are books and cats!

Thanks for a thoughtful discussion of the issues. Most of the edits in question seem to be simply a case of modernising the language, which is something commonly done in children's books anyway. To give an extreme example, I would not have enjoyed reading Beowulf as a child so much if I'd had to read it in the original Anglo-Saoxin, or even a literal translation. The meaning of a word includes its connotation as well as its denotation, and if the connotation of a word changes, then keeping it the same actually changes the meaning of the text. As adults, we're usually capable of working that out, but children usually aren't. So what you said at the beginning of having an edited version in the Puffin range while keeping the classic version for those who prefer it should have been the end of the story.

the music is danse macabre by camille saint-saens

the lottery is the same idea as the wicker man. you sacrifice one for a good harvest.

you people are reading way too much about this story. someone who talks to children like that is mentally ill. and the mother should have told him to shut up.

Daphne du Maurier is always a favorite

After watching this i'm definitely going to have to play Gone Home! I don't care for scary stories/games, but knowing ahead of time that the scary things have a mundane, not so scary explanation makes me curious about the explanations and the lore, (so yay for ignoring spoiler warnings, otherwise i probably wouldn't play it, too easily scared). Similarly, after binge watching several of your videos I need to remember to see if my local library has any of Radcliffe's books, between the Mundane Supernatural trope and also just, being older in the genre, they sound interesting and like the type of book in the horror/horror adjacent genre i can handle (again, generally dont like scary stories but have enjoyed books like dracula, jekyll and hyde, and phantom of the opera, i find the older novels much more bearable)! I'm really enjoying your videos, i'm so glad i happened to find this channel

Fantastic analysis, I just love the excitement with which you talk about literature 😊

I think the story hinges on the boy's remark at the very end. Prior to the encounter with the old man, the child had a stereotypical conception of witches as ugly females who practice cannibalism. After the exchange, he realized that evil comes in all shapes, sizes, ages and genders. Sometimes it may even resemble a beloved grandfather.

"This is Edgar Allen Poe" *me only looking at the cat*

Just reading a book about Gabriele D'Annunzio, another important member of the movement. It seems that, what started as a playful rejection of morality, eventually led to something much more sinister. At least in his case, since he eventually became a "grandfather of fcism". As the author says, they replaced beauty with morality. If death, suffering, tragedy, indifference was full of artistic beauty and inspiration, it cannot be evil. I guess we found the hard way they were wrong. It's no wonder Huymans returned to catholicism in his later life.

i love your cat mousie! so cute 🥺 and also, very gothic novel of him to marry his cousin.

A wondeful video. Thank you.

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I love ghost stories, hill house is sooooo my type!

Raven hands!!

I read Dahl growing up, I've read Dahl in Swedish, French, Norwegian, Danish and English. I've read it to my children, and I had it read to me. Now, I was taught to look up words and phrases I didn't know. My parents also explained to me that some thoughts and expressions are products of their time and may not be the most correct or kind thing to believe or say. I tell my children the same thing, and we talk about the more controversial topics. I am not sure if there is a good way to approach the censorship issue here. I like what WB did with Looney Toons and Tom and Jerry, and maybe that should be common practice in reprints?

Im glueing sequins on felt for a queer event next week and listening along, thanks!

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The video was great. To learn a bit about Poe's life was interesting, but here's the thing: I never knew anything about his life, but The Raven still enraptured me. The proof is in the pudding: it is a masterpiece of literature, and nobody needs to know a thing about the author to be struck.

Edgar Allan Poe, the quintessintial capricorn

There's a special kind of darkness in knowing that everyone around you finds something "not so bad", "normal" or even "funny" that you know isn't at all... .

I read it in high school SEVERAL TIMES, I’ve gifted copies of it to others. I worked in an archive and hunted down a copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s autobiography. “This is all hear-say. Maybe some of the details of my birth as told me might be a little inaccurate, but it is pretty well established that I really did get born.” An incredible story that we are lucky to have in the pantheon of greatness.

You call it a 'defence of', but for me it was a great introduction to Angela Carter. Thanks for that. Also, I love the fade into cat grooming ending.

"Virile member" awful awful

My fiancé and I watched Pale Blue Eye and he, not knowing much about Poe, said, ‘I know this is fictional but, was Poe okay?’ I could only shake my head and slowly say, ‘noooo.’

This was in my YT recommendations and immediately I am in love with you and your companion. YT really did well today! Thanks for the video.

Hey i love your frankenstein videos and just finished reading the book! Can you please make more frankenstein videos i love your channel :)

i just did a marathon of your videos and my god! definitely my new favorite youtube content creator

You know what I love about classic horror? The fact anyone who reads it can find a different theme that they can latch onto and give reason as to why. Like the ultimate mirror. One can read Frankenstein and interpret it as a story about the dangers of playing god, another can see themes of sexuality and or the experience of a woman going through a still birth, yet none of them are wrong. I sure do hope no one in the comments decides to comment the equivalent of “Nu-uh!” Wouldn’t that be embarrassing!

One of my earliest favorite authors. My appreciation for and occasional dip of my contemporary quill into poetry stems wholly from the work of Poe. Our black cat Edgar is named after him. As for The Raven, I find it delightful in its rhythms rather than frightening.

Utterly gorgeous outfit for the season!

Anyone else think of the Babadook when considering the Raven? They both are manifestations of destructive grief.

I love videos with citations.

Thank you ;)

2:00 In this case, that "The Raven" is one of those things that a poet never does but once is not the explanation. Poe had nothing whatsoever to do with the writing or the premiere publication of "The Raven," his claim to authorship being merely a brazen, public scam. I can prove it, after over a decade of independent research. The real author had been Mathew Franklin Whittier, younger brother of the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who had written it based on real-life circumstances in December of 1841.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman produced stories like this in the 1890's. The Yellow Wallpaper, which describes the treatment given to women with "neurathenia", an early term for depression and anxiety.

Hello, there. Fellow goth and punk 10- year-old who also stidied literature!

Society sells family life as if it's a top tier lifestyle. It's not. It demotes women and promotes men.

Thank you! I am pleased to hear how to properly pronounce the word "penchant," (which I have - for decades - incorrectly pronounced "pen-chant.") However, I am startled and irked to hear you misuse the phrase "begs the question," (at 14:08) especially as you are a producer of videos on the topic of literature, and have an otherwise impressive grasp of linguistic nuances seemingly lost on modern audiences. What it does is *"raise* the question." To *beg* the question is to commit the logical fallacy of making an argument with a premise that assumes its own conclusion. Thank you, and carry on!

Thank you! I am pleased to hear how to properly pronounce the word "penchant," (which I have - for decades - incorrectly pronounced "pen-chant.") However, I am startled and irked to hear you misuse the phrase "begs the question," (at 14:08) especially as you are a producer of videos on the topic of literature, and have an otherwise impressive grasp of linguistic nuances seemingly lost on modern audiences. What it does is *"raise* the question." To *beg* the question is to commit the logical fallacy of making an argument with a premise that assumes its own conclusion. Thank you, and carry on!

After the election you are a safe haven. Thank you for your work ❤