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Made Perfect in Loveliness Only to Die.

Poe first met his paternal cousin – Virginia Clemm –  when she was 7 year old. Her father – William Clemm – died in 1826, leaving Virginia’s mother, Maria Poe, penniless. Maria moved her 3 children in with her mother … Continue reading

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The Cellar of The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven

In The Black Cat, the psychotic narrator slaughters his wife with an axe after she stops him from killing the phantasm of a cat he feels is tormenting him. He conceals her body in a brick wall in the cellar. … Continue reading

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