Jean Epstein was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, he
"The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances of a portrait in a château. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two p
Illustration by Jean-Paul Laurens for The Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Vol. 2. Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1895.
"The Oval Portrat" was first published under the title "Life in Death" in Graham's Magazine, April 1842.