{"id":250,"date":"2010-02-16T18:20:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T02:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=250"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T02:20:05","slug":"the-cellar-of-the-house-where-poe-didnt-write-the-raven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"The Cellar of The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn The Black Cat<\/a>,<\/em> 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. He brazenly invites the police down to the cellar for inspection, smugly confident in his own safety. A hideous wailing fills the cellar and the officer tears down the wall to find his wife’s rotting corpse with the shrieking cat perched on her head<\/a>. ” I had walled the monster up within the tomb!”
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The Black Cat<\/em> describes the home’s actual basement in eerie detail. It’s barren and clammy, floorboards agroaning, peeling paint, cold brick maws, echoey and dolorous. At the bottom of the the stairs is a half bricked, false chimney where the wife’s bludgeoned body would have been hidden. “By means of a crow-bar I easily dislodged the bricks, and, having carefully deposited the body against the inner wall, I propped it in that position, while, with little trouble, I re-laid the whole structure as it originally stood. Having procured mortar, sand, and hair, with every possible precaution, I prepared a plaster could not every poss be distinguished from the old, and with this I very carefully went over the new brick-work”.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m happy to report that even though the completely appropriate horror and grotesquery that the pre-restoration incarnation elicited is no more, the house where Poe didn’t write The Raven is still pretty ghastly. As well it ought to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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