Halloween Countdown, Day 7

[eldritchhobbit]

On this day in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty under mysterious circumstances.

For more information, read "Mysterious for Evermore" by Matthew Pearl, an article on Poe's death from The Telegraph. Pearl is the author of a fascinating novel about the subject, The Poe Shadow.

Comments

[gilda_elise]

It's depressing to imagine all the stories that went unwritten because of Poe's early death. Long before there was King and horror was reallylooked down on, there was Poe. I cut my horror teeth on his work.

[eldritchhobbit]

It's depressing to imagine all the stories that went unwritten because of Poe's early death.

Yes!!! This!!!

If I had a time machine, I'd want to go and save him - and H.P. Lovecraft, and, good heavens, Emily Brontë. The "what ifs" break my heart. Poe's story is particularly haunting, since his life both personally and creatively seemed to be on the upswing after so much tragedy... Augh.