Writer’s Block.
So you want a story, eh? My editor assumes that I am like the sort of conjurer who can fashion …
Tag Archives: Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story Review: Teatro Grottesco
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features about eighty short …
Museum Review: Interview with Ankhhor.
This morning I went to the opening of the new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland – “Fascinating Mummies” …
Tychy@ the Fringe: The Fall of the House of Usher.
Steven Berkoff‘s stab at adapting Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” for the stage has been disinterred from …
Tychy@ the Fringe: PoeZest.
I was initially deterred from going to see “PoeZest,” which is currently playing in the Jury’s Inn, because Poe should …
Tychy@ the Fringe: E.A. Poe… Into the Mind of Madness.
American High School Theater Festival visit the Fringe every year, circling their wagons at Pollock Halls and appropriating the Pilrig …
Book Review: Ellen Datlow’s Poe.
The year is 2005 and we are undergraduate history students at the University of Edinburgh. Our American history tutor, Owen …
Life After the Frontier: Hawthorne and Poe’s Homecoming Warriors.
“Poe has no truck with Indians or Nature,” D. H. Lawrence began his 1923 essay on Edgar Allan Poe, “He …
Bleaching “The Birth-mark”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s warning to America’s abolitionists.
I was recently reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark,” which was first published in the Pioneer in 1843, and I was …
Book Review: Rhetorical Deception in the Short Fiction of Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville.
Terry J. Martin is Professor of English at Ohio’s Baldwin-Wallace College, and his Rhetorical Deception in the Short Fiction of …
EXCLUSIVE: A Hitherto Unpublished Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe.
The following short story was leaked to Tychy by a departing postgraduate student at Yale University. It was discovered in …
A final word on Poe and the South.
Regular readers of Tychy will be aware that the website has previously contemplated the tentative and euphemistic allusions to the American …
Codes and allegories: The real solution to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug.”
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold Bug” (1843) is almost unique amongst his tales in having a specified Southern …
“William Wilson” and The Mind of the South.
In an age in which Mrs Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) would portray America as a land of …
Some plain talking about William Blake.
William Blake (1757-1827) was a professional engraver and amateur poet who lived for most of his life in London and never travelled …
