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The Events Around Edgar Allan Poe’s Death
A death that remains a mystery
Edgar Allan Poe, a great American born author who mastered macabre and mystery. His name alone evokes the soul and leaves an eerie chill. Tragically but fitting, Poe’s death has long been cloaked in mystery. Each legend and rumor of how he passed more ghastly than the next.
Poe’s experience with tragedy starts at a young age…
Poe was born in 1806 in Boston and his experience with tragedy starts from there. Both his parents were actors, but he hardly knew them. David Poe Jr, his father was an alcoholic who had abandoned the family soon after Poe’s birth. While his mother, Eliza Poe, had died when he was just shy of three years old.
Little Poe was sent to live in Richmond, Virginia, with a tobacco merchant named John Allen and his wife who had given him the formal name Edgar Allan Poe. He fought bitterly with Allan and was forced to drop out of college due to the lack of funds, allegedly owing his foster father’s refusal to cover Poe’s gambling debt. After spending some time in the military and sabotaging his second shot at college, Poe moved just north of Baltimore, at the time a third-rate city of graverobbers and squalor that would prove to be the perfect inspiration for the man who would eventually become the…
