Creative Creepiness: Edgar Allen Poe Film Series at the HRC

Beginning September 28 and running through the creepy month of October, you'll have the chance to get freaked out for free every Monday night during the Harry Ransom Center's Edgar Allen Poe Film Series. The festival will offer not one, but TWO versions of The Fall of the House of Usher (the silent and the talkie); three Roger Corman-directed movies (Fall of the House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, and The Raven); and the Fellini/Malle/Vadim-directed Spirits of the Dead. (What, no Treehouse of Horror? And how come nobody ever made a movie of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym?)

All kidding aside, Poe really did write the scariest proto-sci-fi you'll ever read, and he really did marry his thirteen-year-old cousin; visit the HRC exhibit about his life and times, go to the film series, and shiver.