Poe Jam

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'Some Words With a Mummy'.

Poe Jam

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'The Tell-Tale Heart'. 

Poe Jam

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'The Devil in the Belfry'.  "...it can be interpreted that the devil is a violent force of change, originality and creativity in an otherwise stagnant environment."

Poe Jam

Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'The Man That Was Used Up.'  Poe questions a militarized identity, as well as the narrowing gap between man and machine.

Poe Jam

Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'William Wilson'.  "Poe’s notion of the rivalrous double predates Freud’s concept of the repressed, unconscious alter ego by at least half a century."

Poe Jam

Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'Hop-Frog'. Poe may have taken inspiration from incidents that took place in 14th century France.

Poe Jam

Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem, 'The Conqueror Worm.'  "The poem seems to imply that human life is mad folly ending in hideous death, the universe is controlled by dark forces man cannot understand, and the only supernatural forces that might help are powerless spectators who can only affirm the tragedy of the scene."

Po Poe

"You are not wrong, who deem 
That my days have been a dream..."

Poe Jam

Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.'  "Not only has the narrator failed to prevent death, but he has also caused the body to suffer an even more repugnant fate."

Poe Jam

Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, 'The Man in the Crowd'.  "In the nightmare Poe dreams for us, the ordinary person, the man in the street is at heart a criminal" -- W. Brevda.

Very Tales

Adapted from Woe Bogotir, a Russian folk tale.

Very Tales

Based on Ourson, a French fairy tale.

Very Tales

Based on 'The Steel Cane,' a tale from Andrew Lang's Olive Fairy Book.

Very Tales

Adapted from "The Fall of the Spider Man", a Native American folktale.

Alternate Realities

A long time ago, was 1991.

Very Tales

True story

Well well

Another blast from the past . . .

Alternate Realities

A blast from the past . . .

Interlude: Folklore, belated

Very Tales

Adapted from 'The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab', a Japanese Fairy Tale.  (In the original story, monkey eventually gets  his comeuppance.)