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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Michel del Castillo's poignant 1958 novel Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20), about a rootless boy amid the death shadows of war-haunted Europe.
Haunted they come, their balefully intaglio psyches
The Haunted Palace, by Frances Win-war. A fine biography of Edgar Allan Poe, evoking a life of drink, drugs, and near madness redeemed solely by the unsinkable spar of his sometime genius.
In the snug, overstuffed parlor of early 19th century optimism, Poe played Hamlet to his own ghost, and it is sometimes difficult to separate the poet from the poltergeist who tipped over the stuffed birds, broke the bric-a-brac and put the ladies into a flutter. It is the...
When Poe left the house of "Old Swell-Foot" Allan, poems were literally a penny each.*His death-haunted spirit could not long function in the field of pure poetry, but Poe carried heavy weapons in journalism, which, to him, was a corpse-littered no man's land between...