Anna Helen Crofts: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, this is a little story that me and howard wrote together
Barker: you and howard? how'd that happen?
HP Lovecraft: oh we've been looking for a project to do together for a while
Edward Lee: bro you hanging with anna helen crofts now?
Lovecraft: yeah
Lee: bro
Lee: sonia greene, winifred jackson, hazel heald
Lee: how are you pulling all this quality tail?
Lovecraft: i don't know, i'm just being myself
Lee:
Lee: bro that doesn't make any sense
Crofts: ok so this story is about a woman who reads a poetry book
Crofts: and she has a dream that the gods themselves appear to her
Crofts: and they're all 'babe, we got some great news for you'
Crofts: you're so hot that you're gonna fuck some inspiration into the world's greatest poet
Crofts: the gods are all 'check it out'
Crofts: 'you know Dante Alighieri? William Shakespeare? John Milton?'
Crofts: 'morons!'
Crofts: 'the guy you're gonna fuck is SO much better'
Angela Carter: a woman's just there to be a muse for a great man, huh?
Carter: why can't a woman be a poet herself, I ask you?
Crofts: no angela you don't understand
Crofts: this chick is SO hot
Carter: that doesn't figure into it
Patricia Highsmith: naw i think it does
Crofts: me and howard wrote this story together
Barker: oh did you now?
Poe: clive
Barker: i can tell, cuz it's definitely got all the usual hallmarks of a howard story
Poe: clive
Barker: i bet howard really contributed a lot
Poe: clive
Crofts: wouldn't that be great to be a muse
Crofts: a poet looks at you, he's all 'this chick is SO hot'
Crofts: 'i can't NOT write the world's greatest poem'
Crofts: if you think about it, howard
Crofts: that's kinda like you and me, don't you think?
Lovecraft: yeah i guess
Crofts: something wrong, howard?
Lovecraft: no
Lovecraft: no it's nothing
Lovecraft: its just
Lovecraft: that isn't really the direction i thought our collaboration would take
Crofts: what's wrong with it?
Lovecraft: it's just kinda mushy
Crofts: ok howard well next time we'll write what you want to write
Crofts: in fact, here
Crofts: why don't you use my beauty as inspiration
Crofts: i'll be your muse
Barker: ah ha ha
Barker: oh honey
Barker: oh sweetie
Barker: have you read any of howard's stories?
Crofts: write me, howard, write me like one of your squid girls
Lovecraft: [sweats] ok um so
Lovecraft: [sweats] so in this story there's this girl, ok
Crofts: what's she like
Lovecraft: indescribable
Crofts:
Barker: ah aha ha
Barker: nice save
In episode 62, we learnt that at some point while they were alive, like Annabel has a pet name for Lenore, Lenore had a pet name for Annabel, with Annabel questioning why Lenore still calls her Annabel when Lenore claims she remembers everything.
Now, I’ve seen a lot of different ideas about what it could be; angel, belle, anything flower adjacent, and most popularly, Annie. Interesting thing about the name Annie, Poe actually has a poem named ‘For Annie’. For a summary of the poem: A dying man gives thanks that his "lingering illness," life, is finally over. He talks about how no one should pity him since everyone will lie in the same bed he does. Furthermore, his death is not final. As his lover, Annie, looks on him and cries because she thinks he is dead, he declares that his heart and his thoughts are more alive than ever, for they are filled with the sight of Annie's love. Though dead, he lives on because of her love.
Thanks to the thumbnail of episode 90, it seems like we’re going to get to see or at least get more information on how Annabel died, and if our assumptions are right, how Lenore died as well (fastpassers you better drink your water and mind your business cause if episode 90 ends up being a episode 77 situation when it comes to spoilers, I am coming for your knees). Since we had reference to the poem ‘Lenore’ in episode 66, if Lenore’s pet name for Annabel does end up being Annie, it would definitely be of good use to look for references to ‘For Annie’ in the way Lenore thinks of Annabel, especially if we get a look into Lenore’s thoughts before she died.
I’m going to leave a link to the poem so everyone can go to have a quick read of it. There were quite a few lines that reminded me of different details in the comic (you’ll see what I mean)
How Lenore DID Killed Annabel Lee and how this Will be a prior influence on Lenore's Spectre:
So, we All know the "story" about how Annabel had her Spectre, yet almost all of us believe that Lenore didn't killed Annabel Lee and everything is a lie from the Deans.
well JOKES ON Y'ALL.
Annabel Lee was Indeed murdered by her wife and is easy to know why.
1.- Annabel's spectre
So here's a Fact.
She's a Lady in white, in poppet's words: "an entity who died before she was to be wed".
At simple glance, it's pretty general that explanation, yet her Spectre was triggered because of the Deans' words:
"You were murdered by the one who loved You above all else."
Now if it was a Lie, her Spectre and for consecuence HER MEMORIES wouldn't have been triggered, she FELT the shot in her chest, she REMEMBERS her death, she KNOWS it was Lenore, and because of this She's not only inssistant on Lenore because of love, but because of also fear.
"oh but the Deans could have lied"
WRONG MY GAY FELLA.
they are shown to be entities that LOVES to play following the rules, Specially Mourn.
Even if Merry loves Chaos, Mourn has been shown he wouldn't let his companion cause Chaos by breaking the rules, he barely accepts when Merry finds loopholes in the rules and i'm afraid there has to be a rule all over Nevermore that dictates them not lie about the victim's death.
Why do i Say this? Well, i also love finding loopholes in stories, rules and stuff to get away with My intentions.
So knowing the fact that they also Know about the Bond between Annabel and Lenore and what they are capable of (i'll make another post talking about this) they wouldn't just stay there and watch as they always have done.
They HAD to do something about it, and what could they do? Manipulate one of them, and because they Know Lenore tends to go against any figure of power by doubting their words, they went to Annabel, the victim of Lenore and the girl that plays considering the rules.
So they just decided to trigger the memories that were convenient For them, they played with her memories slightly, they grabbed a situations out of context about that moment so Annabel could know she was killed by her lover, and to know how dangerous Lenore is.
Too Bad they just Made her get to another conclusion:
"Lenore Loved me, but she killed me, so i better keep her close to me and avoid making her upset"
Stephen King: hey patricia is it true you used to write comics?
Patricia Highsmith: [long cigarette drag]
Highsmith: who told you that
King: well, i just heard-
Highsmith: was it stan lee?
Highsmith: musta been stan lee
Highsmith: never met a cat who talked so much
Highsmith: might as well be a dame with all the yap yap yappin
Dean Koontz: wowwwww did you really meet stan lee, patricia?
Highsmith: yeah
Koontz: wowwww! what was that like?
[flashback]
Stan Lee: hey there comics fans its me, stan lee
Lee: how bout a date?
Highsmith: no dice
Poe: steve
King: i just thought she'd like to tell us about her
Poe: steve
Poe: just no
Poe: no
King: ok fine
Barker: i'm gonna hear the comic story
Poe: CLIVE NO
King: ah but patricia i think we'd all like to hear a comics story
Patricia Highsmith: i ain't gonna tell no comic story
King: well maybe I can't convince you
King: but I bet I know someone who can!
Alan Moore: [appearing in a flash] who dares summon the arch magus?
King: the arch magus!
Poe: the arch magus!
Koontz: the arch magus!
Moore: speak! what boon ask ye of the arch magus?
King: hey alan you've worked in comics
King: how about you tell patricia that comics aren't stupid
Moore:
Moore: i cannot tell her that
Moore: comics are the bane of my existence! a curse upon them!
Highsmith: now this guy, this guy i like
Highsmith: he's got a real noodle in his noggin
Moore: the arch magus would do well to hear your counsel, mortal
Highsmith: sure, we could jaw a bit
Highsmith: how you feel about snails, archmagus?
Moore: be these your familiars?
Highsmith: "familiars"
Highsmith: listen to this cat
Highsmith: ok fine you mooks wanna hear about my comics
Highsmith: i'll tell ya
Highsmith: but only cuz i'm here among bros
Highsmith: long as its just dudes
Highsmith: cuz these stories
Highsmith: they get a little rough
Highsmith: and you know how dames are
Highsmith: so this story's just for us dudes
Highsmith: so franz
Franz Kafka: what?
Highsmith: you gotta go
Kafka: huh? what?
Kafka: why?
Highsmith: you just gotta go
Kafka: i don't understand
Barker: oh my god franz get a clue
Poe: clive
Highsmith: submitted for the approval of the midnight pals
Highsmith: i call this the tale of the crime puncher
Highsmith: it's about this real swole square headed guy who punches criminals
Highsmith: pow! punch! bam!
Highsmith: that's what comics are all about
Highsmith: so there're these 2 palookas who fight crime
Highsmith: named steve and ploopie
Barker: i'm sorry what
Highsmith: steve and ploopie
Barker: steve and WHAT
Highsmith: what, you got cabbage in your ears? ploopie
Barker:
Barker: i'm sorry WHAT
Highsmith: anyway steve and ploopie gotta do some punching
Barker: there's a lot of punching in these stories
Highsmith: that's what kids want in comics
Barker: huh sure yeah
Barker:
Barker: i'm sorry steve and WHAT
Poe: let it go, clive
Highsmith: so this world war i playing ace crashes into a polish swamp
Highsmith: when he dies, it creates a big mud monster
Highsmith: who goes to america to harass some kid for his model air plane
Barker: i'm starting to see why you didn't want to tell these stories
Poe: CLIVE
Highsmith: i didn't just do action comics tho
Highsmith: i wrote educational ones too
Highsmith: like the two-fisted tales of oliver cromwell
Highsmith: or don't mess with galileo
Highsmith: or catherine the great takes out the trash
King: why didn't you stick with comics, patricia?
Patricia Highsmith: eh you know how the comics biz is
King: but I've heard its actually a growth industry
Highsmith: is that so
King: yeah they tell me that there's lots of opportunities in comics for girls
Highsmith: ugh pass