Friday, 19 August 2011

Poe.

Did you know that Edgar Alan Poe married his cousin when she was only thirteen?

He’s mostly associated with New York, Philadelphia and Virginia, which is a coincidence.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable Dominion over all.

Still my favourite bit of alliteration.

2 comments:

andrea kiss said...

I knew that.

And Baltimore.

Mask of the Red Death is my favorite by him.

My parents hid mt Poe books from me for a while when i was a kid... said i spent too much time reading his stuff and needed to read something else. Silly silly.

JJ said...

I first read an anthology of his about thirty years ago, but yesterday I decided to read them again. As far as I recall, my favourite before was Murders in the Rue Morgue, but I'll probably change my mind after I've re-read them.

Only I know the coincidence of New York, Philadelphia and Virginia. Baltimore doesn't fit.

The new profile pic is nice, by the way.