In a story by this author, a Norwegian fisherman recounts his brother’s death during a hurricane near the island of Moskoe. This author quoted Joseph Glanvill to describe a woman’s eyes as “more profound than the well of Democritus.” The title woman of a story by this author, who writes a poem that mentions an orchestra “breathing fitfully” and how “the play is the tragedy, ‘Man,’” resurrects through (*) Lady Rowena after composing “The Conqueror Worm.” This author of “A Descent into the Maelström” wrote a story depicting black velvet decor and scarlet windows in the seventh room of a building whose ebony clock chimes hourly, causing guests to stop dancing at a ball hosted by Prince Prospero. For 10 points, name this American author of “Ligeia” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” ■END■
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| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 90.67 |
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| Michael Hunding | Illinois A | Chicago A | 22 | 15 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | Illinois B | 23 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Arizona State University B | 27 | 15 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | 27 | 15 |
| Vikram Narasimhan | Illinois Orange | we need new names | 33 | 15 |
| Shishir Bharadwaj | Lexington | Belmont | 36 | -5 |
| Darren Kellis | Quatumvirate | Goober Gang | 47 | 15 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Maryland B | 57 | 15 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 64 | 15 |
| Derrick Liu | Johns Hopkins B | Catholic University of America | 65 | 15 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 65 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Michigan A | 66 | 15 |
| Ryan Smith | mongeese | MSJ | 66 | 15 |
| Joseph Chambers | Free Agents 1 | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 68 | 10 |
| Jaimie Carlson | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | 69 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis | 69 | 10 |
| Tony Chen | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 69 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | Iowa State | 69 | 10 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Ohio State B | 71 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | Mahjonng Masters | Gruh | 71 | 10 |
| Shahar Schwartz | Egypt Airlines Haters | evil women enjoyers | 71 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | 73 | -5 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Carleton | 74 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | South Dakota School of Mines | 74 | -5 |
| Henry Bylinowski | Auburn 2026 | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | 74 | 10 |
| Megan Wang | Brown | RIT | 74 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | BU | 74 | 10 |
| Sai Subramanian | CWRU | George Mason A | 74 | -5 |
| Billy Beyer | Billy's Bastion | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | 74 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 74 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | WashU Bulbasaur | 75 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto A | Waterloo B | 76 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 77 | 10 |
| Andre Wong | LSE | Warwick A | 77 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | Johns Hopkins A | 77 | -5 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial A. | Imperial B | 82 | 10 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge | Sheffield B | 82 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto C | Simon Fraser | 82 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto D | Toronto E | 82 | 10 |
| Ryan Happel | SIUE | WashU Charmander | 82 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Haverford B | 85 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | girl 15 whale i mean they | UCSB | 88 | 10 |
| Eli Issokson | Georgetown | George Mason B | 95 | 10 |
| Teddy Fogel | Birmingham | Manchester | 99 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | George Mason C | 100 | 10 |
| Roxanne Tang | Ohio State A | Michigan C | 103 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | Caltech | 103 | 10 |
| Rohan Navaneetha | Ohio State D | Oberlin | 104 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | UW B | UW A | 105 | 10 |
| Vivian Fan | Claremont A | UCLA A | 110 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State C | 116 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Edinburgh | 116 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Chicago B | 116 | 10 |
| Corwin Davidson | UBC | Ottawa A | 117 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo C | Guelph | 120 | 10 |
| Connor Rankin | UCSD | Claremont B | 123 | 10 |
| Emily Bussa | Maryland A | George Washington | 125 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Illinois C | 128 | 10 |
| CT Tang | Sheffield C | Warwick C | 131 | 10 |
| Matthew Lam | Ohio State B | Michigan B | 133 | 10 |
| Eric Anderson | South Dakota School of Mines | Washington Connections | 133 | 10 |
| Adsayan Ganesh | Warwick B | Lancaster | 133 | 10 |
| Humzah Shaikh | George Mason A | CWRU | 133 | 10 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Haverford A | 133 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Lexington | 133 | 10 |
| Halee Carey | Mac A | McGill B | 133 | 10 |
| Jared He | Waterloo A | McGill A | 133 | 10 |
| Graham Troy | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | 133 | 10 |