[j. d. worthington]

Query, Curt: Do you think this was one of the things that Matheson was addressing (unspoken) in his screenplay for the Corman film? I'll confess, I hadn't put any thought into this one until Nesa raised it, but it made perfectly good sense once she did... and it seemed to me that Matheson wove that into some of the script.... As for the necrophilia, I'd suggest that it would be in thought rather than deed, given the events of the tale as presented, and not even self-acknowledged at that; but it would seem fitting with the "graveyard/romantic poets" aspect Poe was addressing... and his own fascination with "the death of a beautiful woman", which has often been noted as one of his major themes (Virginia Clemm's long decline certainly played a significant role there, of course....)