Writing For A Living

He not always succeeded to have enough to live. He had a very unlucky life.

@cindiowens He was poor during all his life, even if he even wrote for important newspapers.

I certainly couldn't survive writing, lol.

I would have to agree with you on that

The Pit and the Pendulum is good. I agree his stories are much spookier than the new movies. You should watch the movie "The Raven", it's very interesting.

@LadyDuck I shall have add it to my list, right now next on the list is Minions, lol

I also did not realize he was born at the beginning of 1800.

@LadyDuck I would have estimated somewhere around the Victorian era, although it is not something that I ever though about much.

Yes he was a very good writer.

I like everything a bit macabre and mysterious, there are some of his tales that are really good.

@LadyDuck I really don' enjoy reading macabre stories. I prefer to read history.

This is also a wonderful tale and I agree with you, they are more macabre than the today stories that are only gore.

You are right, he wrote a lot and many tales are pretty good.

Absolutely not, he was poor and he stayed poor all his life. A short and troubled life with plenty of problems.

@Pattitude You are tight he had a tragic life since he was a young child.

@LadyDuck It was such a tragic life he had.

I like this poem too. The poor Edgar A. Poe was a very unlucky man, a lot of terrible events during all his short life.

I have seen all the movies made from his novels.

@JudyEv They are pretty dark novels, the movies list is very long: "The Cask of Ammontillado", "The Raven", "The Tomb of Ligeia" "The Pit and The Pendulum", too many to mention. As I said, they are good movies if you like horror.

@LadyDuck Wow, that's pretty impressive. Are there many films of his works?

I have read all his tales and many of his poetry and I have seen all the movies from his tales.

@whiteream I love the Vincent Price movies too, I have the full collection on DVDs, some are pretty scary.

This is wonderful, I did not know that you write because of his writings. I also have a collection of his works.

@LadyDuck My father and grandfather were big fans of his work. I love the Vincent Price movies that were made from his works as well.

Poor Edgar Allan Poe, it is incredible what a sad (short) life he lived. I have read (again) the Rue Morgue last week. He was a great writer.

@Namelesss I took the collection from the library of my father. I know that my Mom is not interested in those novels.

@LadyDuck He was. I would love to have a complete collection of his tales. Maybe one day I'll look into that.

Definitely a 10 on my list.

@Prakshi_22 I would also quote it 10 on my list.

@Marcyaz definitely!

@LadyDuck I agree. Edgar Allan Poe isn't the ideal author to emulate when you have plans of hitting it big by writing.

Edgar Allan Poe never became rich and his life is surely not a life we would like to live. Surely there are more lucky authors, who made big money writing, Stephen King is an example.

@LadyDuck thanks for the input.. i actually love John Cusack and horror i'll definitely watch this one soon

@lady1993 I am sure you will like this movie.

Yes, The Raven is a very good movie. John Cusack has played very well in this movie. If you like mystery/horror I am sure you would like it.

My same favorite authors, I have also seen almost all the movies made after their tales and novels.

@LadyDuck Me too. They all turned out great.

I have read all his tales, I remember they scared me when I was a teenager.

@shellyjaneo All his tales are macabre, but I like them.

@LadyDuck I didn't realise he wrote horror although thinking about it that rings a bell now x

You mean the postulate about the comet orbit? Or the fact that he described a possible trip to the moon on a hot air balloon? A wrote so many things.

@LadyDuck No, but your right of course about those too! I meant the one about why the night sky is dark at all because there are actually stars that fill in all the spaces between the other stars, they are just further away....and light doesn't really diminish much in space. So it's always been a difficult thing to answer. Poe made the now quite obvious point that if the universe is so large and expanding in all directions and so on then light wouldn't have had time to reach us yet from those "in-between" stars! (But one day -LONG from present day - that will obviously change and the night sky will be as bright or brighter then the day sky! Seems kind of lie common-sense today, but the smartest scientific scholars of the day couldn't figure that one out. Poe did.

The Raven is my favorite, spooky thing to read when you are 10 years old, visions of an insane man being harassed flashed through my mind, but then kids love getting spooked and I reread his poem many times as a young un :)

I also love everything written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Pit and the Pendulum is a scary one.