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.