These pageants might be longer.

They furnish the great climax.
They make a consistent parallel and contrast with the ghoul-visions that end with the confession to the detective.

They wipe that terror from the mind.

They do not represent Poe.

The rabbits, the leopard, the fairies, Cupid and Psyche in the clouds, and the little loves from the hollow trees are contributions to the original poetry of the eye.
Finally, the central part of this production of the Avenging Conscience is no dilution of Poe, but an adequate interpretation, a story he might have written.