EVENTS 2024 & 2025
There will be a series of events through late 2024 and 2025 to support the launch of Mansion Of Gloom including talks, reviews and interviews with the Author.
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The Dracula Society
This year, The Dracula Society will be hosting Antony Clatyon and a talk about Mansion Of Gloom on Saturday 26th April, along with their Spring Meeting and 2025 AGM. Details can be found here on the Dracula Society Website .
The Victor Wynd Museum of Curiosities
Join Antony , The Last Tuesday Society and the Victor Wynd Museum at this special digital Zoom event to discover the unsettling legacy of Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’.
Welcome to Mansion of Gloom:
Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.
Join us at the Westminster Reference Library where author Antony Clayton will be our guide through the dark and mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of madness and premature burial and its chilling legacy in a myriad of media.
This 1839 short story has been adapted into over 20 film interpretations , numerous operas and musical tributes, literature, art, theatre, graphic novels and computer games. Recently Netflix broadcast Mike Flanagan's eight-part series based on Poe's work. The House of Usher's fortunes continue to rise.
Copies of Antony Clayton's new book Mansion of Gloom will be on sale on the night.
Friday, 7 Feb 2025, 6 - 7pm
Westminster Reference Library
35 Saint Martin's Street, London WC2H 7HP
Strange Frames and Tadhg Mae Projects are excited to bring you a cinematic celebration of Edgar Allan Poe on his birthday, January 19th. Join us for an afternoon of discussion, music and cinema, with two adaptations of Poe’s 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.
Screening Ivan Barnett’s 1950 hidden gem, filmed in Hastings, at Fairlight Hall. Upon release this creepy gothic curiosity was awarded the rare honor of an ‘H’ certificate by the BBFC, indicating it’s ‘horrific’ content! The production was attended by infamous occultist Aleister Crowley. Alongside this we will be screening James Sibley Watson Jr and Melville Webber's 1928 short, which explores Poe’s gothic literature in expressionist terms, inspired by Robert Weine’s groundbreaking The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. The short will be screened with brand new musical accompaniment from Maria Christofi.
The screening will be preceded by a talk from Antony Clayton, author of Mansion of Gloom: The Unsettling Legacy of Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher', the brand new book that explores the dark and mysterious world of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of madness and premature burial and its chilling legacy in a myriad of media. Antony Clayton is a writer who lives in Hastings, previous titles include Netherwood: Last Resort of Aleister Crowley and Secret Tunnels of England: Folklore and Fact.
Sunday 19 January, 3pm TICKETS £12. (Cons: £10/£6)
SOFT LAUNCH
Mansion of Gloom will be available for the first time as prt of the Hastings Old Town Christmas shopping event at the Tadhg Mae galler in Hastings
POE & MUSIC
Antony will be talking with the writer Ben Thompson on Resonance.FM - available to stream from 19th December.
They will be talking the influence of Poe and Usher on all things musical, from Lou Reed to Debussy.
LAUNCH EVENT
Mansion of Gloom will be launching on Saturday, December 7th at the Tadhg Mae Gallery in Hastings, 3pm - 5.30pm
There will be an illustrated talk by the author and a chance to buy a signed first edition of the book.
Mansion of Gloom comes complete with a separately printed edition of the full text of "The Fall of the House of Usher"