![]() ![]() JacksonĪ tale twisted to a diverse feminist revenge story, this entry watches the narrator as she exacts a clinical end to the man who mocked her and her family for not being Jamacian enough with deadly results in modern-day New Orleans. It’s Carnival! (The Cask of Amontillado) by Tiffany D. The perfect opener to this anthology, this historically-minded tale about a manor house experiencing the entrancement and death of its lord was the PERFECT amount of spooky. ![]() She Rode a Horse of Fire (Metzengerstein) by Kendare Blake To keep this review shorter than its original anthology, here are my quick thoughts and ratings on each of the 13 tales: Having the original Poe tales in the back of the collection was such a good call-I actually read each tale in tandem, from new reimagining to old inspiration to compare and contrast each entry. I couldn’t believe how nuanced and imaginative these retellings were, and how eerily similar they felt to their original inspirations. In His Hideous Heart, editor Dahlia Adler has compiled a truly impressive shortlist of some of Poe’s most famous tales, reimagined for a 2019 audience. Dark, diverse, feminist, eerie, memorable, and twisted-welcome to the new generation of Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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