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Online Conference Registration!

Please note that the on-line registration is now available at http://www2.lv.psu.edu/PSA/Conference2009/registration.html

Please note, as well, that you need to contact the Hyatt Penn's Landing directly to reserve rooms. Please be sure to mention the conference for the conference rate. If you go to the conference web site, the link to the hotel web site is available; see http://www2.lv.psu.edu/PSA/Conference2009/location-accommodations.html
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Book Sale at PSA Conference

Due to financial constraints, Scholars Choice cannot participate in our conference. Nonetheless, we would still like to have a book sales table, but we need your help.

Please email your recent (2006-present) book titles with publishers to Loretta Yenser at lxy4@psu.edu.

We will make arrangements to sell your Poe-related book at the conference; of course, we would appreciate any leg-work you might be able to do with your publisher to help us with this task.

We will stop taking information from your emails on July 10.

We are hoping that a local bookstore like Robin's Books may want to "man the table." Thanks so much for your help with this. Barbara
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Has Anyone Seen This Film?

The latest Poe film came out last year and I'm wondering if anyone has seen it... if so, please comment!

Thanks!

Solve Edgar Allan Poe's Cryptogram

Solve Edgar Allan Poe's Cryptogram

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Poe, Decoded

Poe, Decoded

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Goth Query

This isn't exactly a Poe question, but I thought it might interest some of the same audience:

Does anyone know of a good article or book chapter on gothic (but not "horror") film that might be used as a general introduction to the genre?

I'm thinking of films in the terror/thriller/psychological drama categories--Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg,etc.--rather than monster/slasher variety. There seems to be lots of film criticism on "horror", and plenty on individual "thriller" directors (like Hitchcock), but I'm really looking for something more broad that will tie the gothic literary and film traditions together for a graduate seminar next year.

Thanks for any suggestions.

John Edward Martin
Louisiana Tech University