Roehrig weaves that foreboding atmosphere into the story, breathing life into new terrors and setting teeth on edge. His horrors were mine his inescapable fate caught my breath and held it, painfully, between two lungs.Īnd that’s how I felt reading The Glittering Death. The mind is relentless with its skills of imagining the worst.
I remember reading the story as a child and clutching the book, my own heart pounding as I imagined the worst that had yet to come to the narrator of the story.
The most striking element of the original tale of The Pit and the Pendulum was the atmosphere of tension and terror. ” I was sick-sick unto death with that long agony.” Narrator, The Pit and the Pendulum The Glittering Death by Caleb Roehrig (inspired by “The Pit and the Pendulum”) But I’ll spare you (today) and only cover my absolute favorite retellings from His Hideous Heart. In a perfect world, I’d love to review each and every retelling in this collection, because many of them were downright gorgeous and grotesque. But that’s another reason why I love the layout of this collection: It’s clear as to which original story inspired a retelling, and I loved reading along, connecting the dots and yet, being surprised by all the new twists and turns. When it comes to retellings in any form, catching on to the fact that a story was inspired by another can be a challenge, especially if the inspiration is rather loose.
What I liked about the layout of this collection is that it’s easy for those of us who’ve read the originals to revisit them before or after reading the retold stories - and it’s also convenient for readers who’ve never been introduced to Poe before. The book is split into two sections: The Tales Retold and The Original Tales. An overview of the book: His Hideous Heart is an anthology collection of 13 re-imagined tales inspired by works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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