I wanted to offer everyone the most Poe-like seasonal cheer I could find.Seriously, I think this is the most malevolent-looking Santa Claus I've ever seen.
Merry Christmas and the very happiest of holidays to all!
And may this guy never come down your chimney.
(Image: NYPL Digital Gallery. Which really should be more careful about what it digitizes.)
"Truth long lies hid but time's long-delayed opportunity at length comes to light--the things that have long been concealed. Truth is the daughter of time." -translation of a Latin inscription carved on a mantelpiece in Ruthven Castle, Scotland.
The intrepid Archie Valparaiso has compiled a useful summary of the, ah, remarkable similarities between Lenore Hart's 2011 novel "The Raven's Bride," and Cothburn O'Neal's 1956 "The Very Young Mrs. Poe."
pdf file: O'Neal-Hart-57.pdf