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Description: Your script must be an adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe short story or poem. The title of your script must be the same as the original work.

"A Dream" by Ammar Salmi
A frustrated writer misinterprets his dream.
Last Comment: 7/4/2008 5:55 AM

"A Dream within a Dream" by Dan Lennox
Make the most out of life, because before you know it, it's gone...
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 12:52 AM

"Alone" by Michael Cuculich
Edgar feels alone. But is he?
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 5:59 PM

"Annabel Lee" by Caroline Fraissinet
An adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's tragic romantic poem about a man's mourning for the death of his beloved, Annabel Lee.
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 9:56 PM

"Annabel Lee" by Austin Jones
A romance lost but never forgotten finds itself again.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:20 AM

"Berenice" by Pete Barry
A man suffering from a rare psychological fixation disorder recounts the tragedy of the woman who loved him.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 8:40 PM

"Bridal Ballad" by Sally Meyer
Lance loves Julie, Julie loves Matthew. To be continued ....
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:08 PM

"Bridal Ballad" by Briant Weylin
A widow remarries and is overcome by guilt by breaking her vow to love her previous lover eternally. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Bridal Ballad".
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 9:22 PM

"Dreamland" by Erich VonHeeder ~ Third Place
Trapped in a coma by a failed sleep experiment, a scientist reaches out to his assistant through her dreams, begging her to murder him.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 4:02 PM

"Eldorado" by Matias Caruso
Adaptation of Edgar Alan Poe's poem.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:24 AM

"Eldorado" by William Dunbar
Gaily bedight, a gallant knight, in sunshine and in shadow, journeys long, singing a song, in search of Eldorado.
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 11:27 PM

"Eldorado" by Brad Viar
A Knight searches for the fabled city of Eldorado.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:31 PM

"How to Write a Blackwood Article" by John Foley
Who makes the story?
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 8:43 PM

"Lionizing" by Ben Hairston
Lionizing is a comedic drama about a man's quest to be the most sought after in society, only to be sent to ruin by what made him famous.
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 11:45 PM

"Some Words with a Mummy" by Audrey Webb
A weak-willed man learns courage after coming face to face with a mummy.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:34 PM

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Sylvia Dahlby
An actor takes revenge on his agent.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:32 AM

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Brian Wind
Revenge is a dish best served with red wine.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:44 PM

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Nathan Brown
Two men settle an old score when a promised taste of rare wine sets the stage for revenge.
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 8:28 PM

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Michael Thede
Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. An 18th Century nobleman lures an acquaintance to his family's catacombs to take revenge for a past insult he has suffered.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 10:04 AM

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Ali Barr
Sometimes you should just bury your ego.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:41 PM

"The City in the Sea" by Philip Whitcroft
Disaster sends a group of people to a "strange city lying alone, far down within the dim West".
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 1:03 AM

"The Conqueror Worm" by Steve Dexheimer ~ Second Place
A disillusioned old man forces members of his retirement home to act in his stage adaption of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 3:57 PM

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" by Neal Barringer
In a mesmeric experiment, a chronically ill patient agrees to describe after-death experiences
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:47 PM

"The Lake" by Marnie Mitchell Lister
A man relives some haunting memories when he visits a cabin where he spent his summers as a young man.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 7:57 PM

"The Man of the Crowd" by Mary McKevett
Justice for Jenny.
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 7:50 PM

"The Man of the Crowd" by Elias Farnum
In a very loose adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, a stranger's private actions are followed into public psychosis and a racist self-realization.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:14 PM

"The Masque of the Red Death" by Kirk White
Mr. Prince secludes himself and a group of LA's elite in a fortress to hide from a plaque ravaging the country; but finds that death has crashed the party.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 10:43 AM

"The Raven" by Chris Messineo ~ First Place
Lonely and despairing for his lost love, Edgar begins to realize that he is not alone.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 11:44 PM

"The Raven" by Ed Zaleski
Dialogue and the characters are reminiscent of Poe's "The Raven" while still reflecting the environment of the middle 1950's era.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:49 PM

"The Raven" by Stephen Brown
Alex is plagued by a visiting raven, which taunts him of his lost love Lenore.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 12:55 PM

"The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" by Lewayne White
A reporter sent to interview a pioneering doctor finds things aren't so "soothing."
Last Comment: 6/30/2008 10:22 PM

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Marla Brecheen
Claims of evil in an eye by a madman.
Last Comment: 7/2/2008 12:25 AM

"The Tell-Tale Heart" by William Coleman
A manservant, driven mad by his master's evil eye, attempts a perfect crime and almost succeeds.
Last Comment: 7/1/2008 3:54 PM

"Ulalume" by Caroline Coxon
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic subject in the world.
Last Comment: 7/3/2008 12:38 PM