Metzengerstein, Edgar Allan Poe
Metzengerstein, Edgar Allan Poe
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Metzengerstein

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2013

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

Poe's mysterious tale of two feuding families.

On the night when the young Metzengerstein is suspected of burning his rival's stables, a strange uncanny horse is rescued from the flames. He recognizes the stallion as the one depicted in an ancient tapestry in his castle and believes it also to relate to an old prophecy regarding the two houses. He adopts the horse as his own and becomes obsessed with it.

But one stormy night, as he rides out on his weird mount... the prophecy comes to pass in a way which he could not have predicted.

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Francesc on November 18, 2023

Relato de Poe sobre un barón y su relación enfermiza con un caballo que aparece en su castillo. Un caballo con los ojos de fuego y de apariencia bestial. Poe's tale of a baron and his unhealthy relationship with a horse that appears in his castle. A horse with eyes of fire and a bestial appearance.......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on February 22, 2016

"Horror and fatality have been stalking abroad in all ages. Why then give a date to this story I have to tell?" With just two sentences Poe gripped me in completely, as ever. His words carry such weight that I find myself enthralled at their delivery. His stories just take away my mind and provide......more

Goodreads review by Bill on September 08, 2019

Printed in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier (January 14, 1832), this is the first tale Poe published under his own name, and it marks a propitious start to the twenty-three-year-old prose writer’s career. It is no masterpiece, but still, it is a fine exciting tale, filled with Germanic atmosphere,......more

Goodreads review by Louie the Mustache on October 17, 2022

Metzengerstein is the first Edgar Allan Poe short story ever published. He had submitted five stories for a writing contest at the Philadelphia Saturday Courier of which he did not win, but had this one published January of 1832. The narrative is essentially about two rival Hungarian families: the M......more

Goodreads review by Christy on September 05, 2021

Edgar Allan Poe is my favorite author of all time. I love it all - the poems, the stories, even the essays. I love when he’s melancholy and gothic. I love when he’s ironic and satirical. I love when he’s dark and romantic. I love it all! I was feeling in the need of a few short stories today - truly......more