Within a month, her mood swings had virtually ceased, but now Allan felt he was living with a librarian studying to be a nun.
The film is not meant to have a standout villain, insists Allan Loeb, one of its writers, because “we were all to blame” for the meltdown of 2008.
Authors of the Sorcerer's Companion: a Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter (Broadway Books 2001), Allan Kronzek is a professional magician and educator who lectures on the history of magic.
His summation for the jury—its inexorable cadence, the slow gathering of dreadful atmospheric details—tugged at my memory, reminding me of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of terror.
Another is “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” by Edgar Allan Poe, with its abrupt non-ending: “And the hue of the skin of the figure was of the perfect whiteness of snow.”
No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.
This year, the Edgar Allan Poe Society and the Poe House in Baltimore will receive the Raven Award.
Edgar Allan POE wrote stories and poems of mystery and terror, insanity and death. His life was short and seemingly unhappy.
I missed Allan desperately-his calm, sure voice; the sweetly fastidious way he folded his shirts.
