Last Night At The Grave
On January 19th, for the second year in a row, the infamous ‘Poe Toaster’ failed to appear at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. Virginia Clemm (the pen name of this essay’s anonymous author), on the other hand, was in attendance:
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Edgar Allan Poe Is Dead
Okay, so Poe died a really long time ago, but the good news is, according to The Guardian, he’s finally getting a real funeral.
“It began badly when he was found, aged 40, wandering the streets of Baltimore, penniless, raving unintelligibly, dressed in someone else’s clothes, possibly having been beaten up.
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