Ligeia

Since time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. "Ligeia" is a story about a man whose encounter with a strange, beautiful, and exceptionally intellectual woman in an old city borders on the supernatural and ventures even further into the realms of the unknown. Touching upon subjects like forbidden knowledge and bizarre beauty, Poe's story serves as an example of what awaits men who are easily led astray and subsequently lost in the labyrinthine vistas of female beauty. Famous film adaptations include Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958) and Roger Corman's "The Tomb of Ligeia" (1964).