A Tell Tale Invitation

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A Tell Tale Invitation

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aeternamente:

shipwreckedcomedy:

Happy birthday to our dear friend Mr. Edgar Allan Poe!

We’re sure he’s having a perfectly miserable time celebrating today, and we hope you are too! Tomorrow we’ll be checking in with Mr. Poe and his resident ghost, Lenore, in a new video that may or may not accompany a project announcement.

In the meantime, we recommend you celebrate today with some light reading, some bird raven-watching, and perhaps a viewing of Mr. Poe’s writing video blog, A Tell Tale Vlog.

If you’re wondering what he was up to on his last birthday, we’ve got that documented and queued up for you here in his Tell Tale Birthday.

We’ll see you tomorrow.

Much love,

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Yay! ~P~ was for Poe!

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Gustave Doré’s depiction of the final lines of ‘The Raven’

Plaque marking Poe’s birthplace in Boston

todayinhistory:

January 19th 1809: Poe born

On this day in 1809, the American poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The young Poe barely knew his parents, with his father leaving the family and his mother passing away when he was just three years old. He lived with another couple as foster-parents, and was forced to gamble to pay for his tuition at the University of Virginia, which he had to drop out of due to financial difficulties. He soon joined the army and was even accepted into West Point, though he was expelled after a year. After leaving the academy, Poe turned his full attention to his writing. He then traveled around Northern cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore; it was in Baltimore, in 1836, that he married his young cousin Virginia. In Richmond, Poe worked as a critic for various magazines, occasionally publishing his original work which included short stories and poems. In 1841, Poe published his ‘Murders in the Rue Morgue’, which many consider the beginning of the genre of detective fiction. His most famous work, the poem ‘The Raven’, was published in 1845 to critical praise. Sadly, his wife died from tuberculosis two years later, leaving the writer grief-stricken and nearly destitute, as he never had great financial success.  On October 3rd, he was found ill in Baltimore and taken to hospital, where he died on October 7th aged 40. It is still unknown what his precise cause of death was, but alcoholism is widely believed to have played a part. While not appreciated in his lifetime, Poe is now considered one of the great American writers.

“Lord, help my poor soul”
– Poe’s last words

Little-known fun fact: His actual last words were “Lord, help my POE soul.” It was a pun, but sadly (and characteristically) no one got it.

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