Your Daily Poe (Or 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 21, Part 2: A Tale of the Ragged Mountains

Thoughts: This was of immediate interest since it's the only story I've read so far that takes place in Virginia - Charlottesville, precisely, where Poe famously flunked out or got kicked out of the University of Virginia. The pace of the story is pleasant, kind of a revved-down version of Poe's earlier manic "THE WALLS ARE COMING IN ALL AROUND ME!" style. But in the end, there's just not a lot there - the character is reincarnated? And the narrator figures it out because of a typo in the obituary? There's a feeling upon finishing that Poe left out something that could've made this a little more compelling, at least to me, anyway. If we must use reincarnation, and the idea that Dr. Templeton already knew the story (don't get me started re: the coincidence that he just happened to be there in 1780, a detail I'll let go thanks to my A Tale of Two Cities concession a few weeks ago.)

Memorable Line: None, really.

Score from 1-10: 5. Meh. Feeling generous today.