Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | Overview
Walsh begins his examination into the death of Poe by writing,
It is a century and a half since the death of Edgar Allan Poe and still there exist urgent questions about what happened, both circumstances and cause. In that situation, surely, there resides a macabre rightness. The man who invented the detective story, in his own sudden and bizarre demise, provided American literature with its most enduring real-life mystery.
From the moment Poe's death was announced to the world, until now, the nature of his death has been uncertain. Perhaps he was found lying in...
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