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His Hideous Heart

His Hideous Heart

FolkloreShort Stories
Pages
468
Published
2019
Language
English

Synopsis

His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined, edited by Dahlia Adler, pairs thirteen YA authors — including Kendare Blake, Rin Chupeco, Lamar Giles and Tessa Gratton — with thirteen of Poe's most famous stories and poems. Each writer retells a classic (Metzengerstein, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher and more) through a contemporary lens, centering teenage narrators — often queer, of color, or otherwise marginalized — who face Poe-worthy horrors alongside the horror of a world that holds power over them. Poe's original texts are reprinted in a second section for comparison.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkMysterious

Genres

Folklore Short Stories Young Adult Horror Gothic

Authors

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Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of young adult fiction. She is best known for the horror novel Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares, the Three Dark Crowns fantasy series, and the standalone thriller All These Bodies, which won the YALSA Teens' Top Ten award. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted as an infant, she was raised in Cambridge, Minnesota. She holds a degree from Ithaca College and a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Middlesex Universit...

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Lamar Giles

Lamar Giles is the author of the young adult thriller Three Sides of a Heart. If you're looking for suspenseful stories with a twist, his work is definitely worth checking out.

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Rin Chupeco

Rin Chupeco is a nonbinary Chinese Filipino writer born and raised in the Philippines. They are the author of several speculative young adult series, including The Bone Witch, The Girl from the Well, The Never-Tilting World, and Wicked as You Wish. Formerly a graphic designer and technical writer, they now write fiction full-time and live with their partner and two children in Manila. They can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @RinChupeco.

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Tessa Gratton

Tessa Gratton is the author of adult SFF The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur from Tor Books, as well as the YA series The Blood Journals and The United States of Asgard. Her most recent YA novels are the original fairy tales Strange Grace and Night Shine.from McElderry Books. Tessa’s novels and short stories have been translated into twenty-two languages, nominated twice for the Tiptree Award, and several have been Junior Library Guild Selections. Though she has lived all over the world,...