Wednesday, November 21, 2012

An Edgar Allan Poe Thanksgiving. Oh! It Smells!

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This account of Poe making a brief return from the afterlife in order to recite a heartfelt Ode to Turkey appeared in the “Grange (MN) A...
Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Poe and Jane Locke

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"[M]y extremely delicate health...and all too sensitive heart, with an irrepressible--shall I call it Genius? --struggling for recogn...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Halloween With Edgar

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If there is a better way to observe Halloween than by listening to Bela Lugosi reading "The Tell-Tale Heart," it doesn't exist...
Monday, October 22, 2012

The First Poe Monument Campaign

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"Fate that once denied him, And envy that once decried him, And malice that belied him, Now cenotaph his fame." -Alfred Tenn...
Saturday, October 13, 2012

Civilization Was Actually Kind of Nice, While It Lasted

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Just spotted on Amazon: If anyone needs me for anything, I'll just be off in this corner, drinking myself into unconsciousness.
Friday, October 12, 2012

Birth of a Meme

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Over in Twitterville last night, Maria   kindly provided Rufus Griswold  with a handy visual aid to assist him in his unceasing battles ag...
Sunday, October 7, 2012

In Memoriam: A Little-Known Poe Obituary

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"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!--for never morrow Shall dawn ...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

In Which We Learn the Sad Truth of What Three Years of Poe Blogging Can Do to a Person

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Yesterday, I came across a series of cat pictures paired with quotes from Pablo Neruda.  While examining that blog, I thought, "Can a ...