Your Daily Poe (Edgar Allan if You're Nasty)

As it's officially October (BOO!), I will on every day be reading one short story written by the Master of the Macabre himself, and briefly commenting on it. Enjoy!

Day 1: MS Found in a Bottle

Thoughts: Meh. An early short story, a pretty tame one about a guy detailing the moments of impending doom following a shipwreck. As little more fantastical than scary; nothing about it's very memorable. May be the foundation of Poe's style of the narrator pleading with the reader in real time, which we'd see in many upcoming works.

Memorable Line: "I could not help feeling the utter hopelessness of hope itself, and prepared myself gloomily for that death which I thought nothing could defer past an hour."

Score of 1 - 10: 4