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Lionizing — absurdist satire again, about a man who’s huge nose makes him the cream of society until he shoots another fellow’s nose off. I didn’t get it.

The Devil in the Belfry — a nonsense silly type of satirical story that seems taken straight out of Poe’s morphine dreams. Not my type at all, but perhaps I just didn’t get the references.

Three Sundays in a Week — Poe starts strong with a very submissive narrator’s voice, in servile rage toward a master. Very intriguing, but in the end it devolves into the same boring narrative trickery.

Metzengerstein - 2/5

King Pest — contains a really strong and jolly start, especially the starting paragraph which so well establishes the setting and principal characters. The ending was also funny and abrupt. However in a true Poe fashion, he spends pages building up the horrors, and then theres only like a paragraph of the horrors/punchline itself