Once upon a midnight dreary: Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia tells the dark story of one of American literature's greatest innovators and masters of horror.(Historic Highlights)(Biography)

From: National Parks | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated for tense, heart-pounding stories and poems such as The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. He is considered a master of horror who turned short stories and poetry into art forms, and Poe's stories of obsession, paranoia, fantasy, and death have inspired such literary giants as Vladimir Nahokov, Ray Bradbury, and Jules Verne.

Often overlooked, however, is the story of Poe's life: the heartbreak, financial struggles, success, and mysterious death, That story casts light on his actual identity; helping us to understand what inspired the man whom many ...

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