"A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite."
"I must not only punish but punish with impunity."
"There came forth in reply only a jingling of the bells. My heart grew sick on account of the dampness of the catacombs."
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Edgar Allan Poe

- January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

Edgar Allan Poe was a famous story writer, critic, and editor to his large amount of mystery and gothic fiction he writes. Early in his life, he returned back home and met his lover, his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Eliza Clemm. Tragically after her death, Poe began writing using thees of lost love and lost beauty. On October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died, cause is still unknown. Even after his death Poe was regarded as the "Master of Golic Fiction" with his detective storytelling and the influence of eerie, poetic and pyscological factors in his writing has impacted everyone worldwide.

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The Black Cat

AZORE SAILOR. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the scuttle.) Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount! Now, boys! (The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go below ... Read More

Mesmeric Revelation

AZORE SAILOR. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the scuttle.) Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount! Now, boys! (The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go below ... Read More

The Tell-Tale Heart

AZORE SAILOR. (Ascending, and pitching the tambourine up the scuttle.) Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount! Now, boys! (The half of them dance to the tambourine; some go below ... Read More