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Episode Eighty Three - Poe’s Vampires - Part Two

• This episode has a brief introduction regarding Dr. Harry Lee Poe - and sections from two vampiric stories by Edgar Poe.  Berenice is the story of a man suffering from monomania - he is obsessed with his cousins teeth.  (And the story has more teeth than Dracula!)  Then Mr. Poe reads a section of The Fall of the House of Usher.)  George concludes the episode with the ending of the destruction of the House of Usher with the (very similar) destruction of the Castle of Dracula.

• Who is Dr. Harry Lee Poe?
• What justifications does Poe try to give to his editor for the “unpleasantness” of Berenice?
• How are Berenice and the narrator of the story related?
• On what does the narrator have an unusual fixation?
• Why does the narrator of “Usher” visit the house?
• Who is Usher? (not the singer!)
• How is the ending of The Fall of the House of Usher similar to the proposed ending for Bram Stoker's Dracula?

• 00:00 Intro  
• 00:45 Remarks about Dr. Henry Lee Poe
• 01:13 Letter regarding Berenice
• 03:31 from Berenice
• 16:35 from The Fall of the House of Usher
• 26:04 Destruction in Usher versus Dracula
• 29:52 Future Episodes
• 30:44 Sources
• 32:01 Outro

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