The Raven
Someone help us!
Giddap!
- It's the fourth oor, upstairs.
- Yes, sir.
Come on.
No!
Not my daughter! Mercy!
Give us room.
Stay there. Come on.
Not her!
- Break it down.
- Yes, sir.
Baltimore Police!
Give me some light.
Oh, no.
- It's empty.
- That's impossible.
We heard a door lock.
Damn it, the window!
It's nailed shut.
Dear God.
Phylum Chordata...
Subphylum Vertebrata.
With kittens...
The ways of God in nature,
as in providence, are not our ways.
Lovely to see you all again.
Hello, Reagan. Did you miss me?
I'm naturally delighted
to be back in Baltimore,
but in all honesty
I'm feeling a bit under the weather.
However, it has been said that
what brandy cannot cure has no cure.
So what say you to a snifter
for an old, ailing friend?
I'm sorry. What?
Nothing.
I can assume, then,
that you're out of brandy?
- We've got many bottles back there.
- So it's a question of finances.
I don't mean to shock you, Poe,
but we haven't seen you in a while.
Last time you were here,
well, things got rather ugly.
Been back in town only a few days
to find quite shockingly,
I seem to have exhausted
any sort of credit I once had.
Fine, fine. If it's money you want...
Try not to sh*t yourself.
That's real.
Spot these sailors a round, too,
on me.
Christ, man, now what?
That'll just about
cover the last tab.
Are you really gonna be this cruel?
The "Patriot" is publishing a review
tomorrow. Ill be ush by dawn.
If the paper publishes
anything you write,
you come back tomorrow,
I'll buy you the shot.
Tomorrow?
Tomorrow I might be dead.
Or you might be.
- I'll risk it.
- How's this?
I get a drink for any man here
who recognizes me
or one of my poems.
Better get to the door
before I split your head open.
My head is already split open,
you overgrown mouth-breather.
So show me some respect
or I'll give you a personal tour.
I'm an internationally lauded poet.
That's why you've got no money.
- I am Poe.
- That's what I said.
Not poor, mouth-breather! Poe!
Poe! Edgar Allan Poe!
Does it ring a bell?!
No.
A drink to any man in this room
who can finish this line!
"Quoth the Raven..."
- Piss off!
- By IP Daley!
"Quoth the Raven"!
- "Nevermore!"
- Hah! Hah!
It is a very favourite poem.
Hive la France!
Slobs!
Philistines!
You wouldn't recognise
an authentic American literary voice
if it hissed in one ear
and slithered out the other.
We know it hurts to pick
your teeth up with broke fingers.
Is that your imagination's limit,
you mental oyster?
I can conjure a multitude
of more exquisite torments.
Your eyeballs dissolving
in a teaspoon of lye!
Your tongue torn from your throat
with a blacksmith's tongs!
A testicle impaled on a kebab skewer!
Get out, you sh*t!
Slowly. Here.
Put her down.
She's just a girl.
What kind of monster would do this?
Katherine LaForte, 36.
Her daughter Anna, 12.
She was strangled.
She's so young.
He was a large man.
By the extent of his grip, over eight
inches from thumb to forefinger.
You agree someone
locked the door from the inside?
Absolutely. We heard the door lock
as we arrived.
And by the time you broke down
the door, the murderer was gone.
Not a trace.
The window was closed
when you came into the room?
Not just closed, nailed shut.
Tell me, how does such a large man
escape so quickly
from a room in which the door
has been locked from the inside...
and the window nailed shut?
I'm not sure, but the mayor
wants results this time, Inspector.
Question the neighbours.
I want a list of all the men
who visited these premises.
Yes, sir.
A lock... triggered by a spring.
But the nail had...
Cut, mid-shaft.
I checked the window ten times
and never found a spring.
I wouldn't have found it either
except...
What is it?
Giddap!
Whoa!
Not again, Mr. Poe.
Christ.
Good morning, Percy.
Contrary to precedent, Captain
Hamilton, I've no intention...
..of asking for money.
What do you want, Poe?
I've come back to town
for your daughter.
- Over my dead body.
- Is that an option?
Poe, please.
You know I find you as revolting
as some of your stupid stories.
Some, but not all.
You look lovely today.
Get out, Poe,
before I shoot you where you sit.
And risk splattering blood and brains
over your daughter's fine silk dress?
- Out.
- Is an invitation...
...to the costume ball
out of the question?
- Father, don't.
- Sorry, Charles.
- See you at the track.
- See you, Edgar.
Giddap!
Another abject humiliation.
Please! Mercy!
I have children!
Why are you doing this? Why?!
I'm only a critic!
Aaaaarghhh!
Good morning. "Baltimore Patriot."
Mr. Poe! Your clothes.
Just beating the mudslingers to it.
Fortitude, Ivan, fortitude.
more than this, Mr. Poe.
- Why?
- It's a crime, a terrible crime.
Out with it, man. What is it?
Did that marsupial of an editor
dare to change my review again?
I told him not to touch it.
I told him, Mr. Poe.
Where's my review? Where is it?
What has he done?
He said there was no more room
in the layout.
No more room? No more room?
Pray tell, what fine twat
did he deem more worthy?
Longfellow!
Longfellow?!
Longfellow!
Where is it?
- Where is what?
- The trash bin.
That is where all this brain-sucking,
soul-warping fish wrap should be put!
That's lovely, Eddy.
A real show of adjectival fireworks
from the great Poe himself.
Not only do you refuse
to print my review of Longfellow,
but you run
his third-rate poem instead!
- People like Longfellow.
- Editors like you tell them to.
Have you no soul, Henry?
Does the artistic enrichment
of your readers mean nothing to you?
Artistic enrichment?
You've got some gall, barging
into my office and lecturing me
when ail you do
is criticize others' work!
Not true. Not true at all.
You called Emerson
a "sad, festering literary whore".
Because he is precisely that.
Is honesty now a vice, or do you
prefer that jaded hack, Griswold,
fawning over some steaming mound
of hackneyed tripe?
- Doesn't think much of YOUR stuff.
- He's an intellectual nonentity.
He's a buffoon, which is probably why
he's so at home here with you.
Aw, you're out of control.
I'm broke.
Then try writing
another "Tell-Tale Heart".
People love blood. They love death.
If I couldn't churn out a "Tell-Tale
Heart" or a "Pit and the Pendulum,
I'd indenture
my very soul to the devil.
You've got to publish my review.
I'm desperate.
I need stories. Gripping stories.
I've got nothing left.
I've used up all my tricks.
Try laying off the liquor and
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