![]() ![]() ![]() “He was interested in exploring human psychology in a way that other writers weren’t doing yet, but he didn’t live that way. “He was not a denizen of the dark,” says Stange. He wrote a wide variety of stories and was an influential reviewer and critic. He preferred to go by the name Edgar Poe. His work has been broadcast on PBS ( The American Experience and NOVA), Discovery Channel, and the BBC.įor the record, Poe took opium only once, in an attempt to kill himself. As executive producer of Boston-based Spy Pond Productions, Stange specializes in cultural and social history. Stange was well equipped to excavate Poe from the weight of mythology the writer is buried under. To play Poe himself, Stange chose Denis O’Hare, whose creepy street cred includes roles in True Blood and American Horror Story. There are animations of Harry Clarke’s famous illustrations and commentary by descendant Hal Poe. The project is star-studded: Roger Corman, Chris Sarandon, and the husky narration of Kathleen Turner. The resulting documentary, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, will be broadcast during Halloween season on PBS’s American Masters. But do you even know where you got those ideas?įilmmaker and UMass Amherst alum Eric Stange ’76 did some detective work to find what the inventor of modern detective fiction was really like. What do you know of Edgar Allan Poe? Probably something like this: that he was an opium addict stretched across the grave of his child bride. ![]()
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