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Literature 

Poe’s Helen of a Thousand Dreams

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Elisabeth Herschbach

For a brief spell toward the end of his life, the master of the macabre also claimed another Northeast city as his haunt: Providence, Rhode Island. And while Poe’s dark tales of the supernatural may make him a Halloween favorite, his stint in Providence is a story fit for a more sentimental holiday—Valentine’s Day.

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Edgar Allan Poe Essays Literature 

Was Edgar Allan Poe’s death predictable?

October 2, 2014October 2, 2014 Dan Currie

On June 30, 1849, the Boston newspaper “The Flag of Our Union” announced that a poem by Edgar Allan Poe

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Anthony C. Hayes Poetry 

He Haunts Me Still

April 26, 2012October 11, 2025 Anthony C. Hayes

Shallow, the blow of a harbor breeze     morn arrives with the autumn air Shallow, the breath of a tortured soul

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