Horror Stories Bonus: Plethora of Poe - Obsession and Death
The Strange and Unusual Podcast
Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Irrationality, obsession and death, all frequent themes in the works of Edgar Allan Poe. |
| 0:08.0 | The narrators of his tales more often than not suffer from some strange overwhelming |
| 0:12.5 | fixation, and these obsessions are often linked with death. |
| 0:18.2 | In this bonus plethora of Poe episode, I will tell three of these tales of obsession and |
| 0:23.3 | death. |
| 0:25.2 | In the first, the oval portrait, a man, an artist, abandons his wife for his art, seemingly |
| 0:32.1 | only capable of showing her any attention when she is the subject of his art. |
| 0:37.1 | However, his obsession with capturing the beauty of his subject drains her of her very |
| 0:41.8 | life. |
| 0:44.2 | Our second poteil, the premature burial, focuses on the narrator's obsession and fear of |
| 0:49.9 | being buried alive due to a medical condition. |
| 0:53.3 | It will fear be the cure for his sickness of both body and mind. |
| 0:57.7 | And finally, with a tale, tale heart, our narrator's fixation leads to extreme irrationality |
| 1:04.0 | and murder. |
| 1:05.7 | And so, without further ado, join me for a plethora of Poe, obsession and death. |
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| 2:02.3 | We're listening to a morbid network podcast. |
| 2:07.2 | Hi, it's me, the OG Green Grump, the Grinch. |
| 2:12.7 | Listen as I launch a campaign against Christmas cheer, grilling celebrity guests like chestnuts |
| 2:18.1 | on an open fire. |
| 2:19.1 | They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes, but it's not going to work, honey. |
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