The days leading up to Edgar Allan Poe's death in October of 1849 remain mysterious. Did the creator of the detective story ironically meet a violent end? Was he really found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter? Whose clothes was he wearing? Did his demons finally get the better of him? What were his last words and what did they mean? What are the facts surrounding Poe's death and what is mere speculation?
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Edgar Allan Poe Sections
- Top 10 on the Poe Parade
- The Fall of the House of Poe
- The Old Foster Folks at Home
- Squaring Off
- Setting Out
- Finding Family
- On the Runway of Fashionable Ideas
- The Work Begins
- Filling the Pen with Prussic Acid
- The Pen Refilled
- Salons and Busybodies
- The Tell-Tale Heartthrob
- The Final Mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe
- Horrors!
- Tiger by the Tale
- One-Shot Deals and “Rejects”
- Reaching for Beauty—The Great Poems
- Crime After Crime
- Out of Place in the Literary Schoolyard
- Overthrowing the Conqueror Worm
- In Search of Eldorado
- Serving Up the Shivers
- Timeline of Edgar Allan Poe's Life
- Bibliography
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