The Death of Poe

Edgar Alan Poe Is dead. Seriously, I read it. He died in October 1849 - or did he? Do we really know? Poe wrote about death a lot, he teased with it, it was his favorite tool. He kept death close and twisted it like a knife. His profession was the macabre, the shadow, the summoned dread and the gruesome aftermath. He was a writer and a critic - what’s more dreadful than a critic? They say he died from “unknown causes" - how absolutely perfect.