Okay – and Edgar Allen Poe.
And our friends at E-Verse Radio, who brought this wonderful thing to the Baroque attention. (And there’s lots more Vincent Price there.)
Vincent Price was, by the way, a constant presence in the Baroque childhood. He was just always on TV. When he died on the same day as my grandmother it was, strangely, a comfort. (And just the sort of thing she would do: she knew everybody… you can imagine him arriving at the pearly gates and St Peter saying, “So you’re a friend of Millie Evans!”)
Anyway, there’ll be even more Halloween tomorrow. And if I can get my act together maybe some kind of catch-up on the week. Meanwhile, hope your day is spooky (and relentlessly rhyming).
(Editing in to say: my friend Kris reminds me in the comments that there is a proper, pukka Baroque in Hackney Stoke Newington connection here, I should have said. Edgar Allen Poe, when he was ten years old, went to school in Stoke Newington Church St, where the Fox Reformed wine bar now is. His foster father was a Mr Allen, whose name he adopted as a middle name, and who I think ran the school… pleasant to think of the morbid little Edgar spooking himself out in the grounds of the old St Mary’s Church, with its ruined Tudor sections…) (N.b., Abney Park was not a cemetery yet, and the Vixctorians were the ones who restored Old St Mary’s – so it will hsve been in a bad shape.)
7 Comments
October 30, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Vincent was closetly bi, y’know. His daughter didn’t deny it when I asked. x
October 30, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Ahh, Mme A! Lovely to see you. I trust you’re not asking me to be surprised. x
October 30, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I know you’re a woman of the world. He was a Gemini like his horror peers Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (now a knight thanks to me). Doubles all round.
October 30, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Mme A, I am indeed a woman of the world; I’ve seen enough to have a horror of Geminis! (cue private laughing moment)
October 30, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Dear Katy
Interesting that Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee were/are all Geminis. Even Clint Eastwood (another Gemini) looks more and more like a death’s head in a Halloween mask.
If you fancy a laugh, have a look at Adam Fieled’s latest blog post Demystifications.
Best wishes from Simon
October 31, 2009 at 10:38 am
the raven always remins me of the Fox Reformed – Poe went to school on the site – back in the day.
October 31, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Kris, I know – amazing enough just to try and imagine him being a child. Hard to iagine the Fox without the chess boards, maybe he sat in there playing chess…