Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was addicted to gambling and alcohol. At the University of Virginia, where he attended college, he would show up to classes and exams drunk.
He loved cats- hey, just because you’re kinda creepy doesn’t mean you can’t like animals.
No one knows exactly how he died: some theories include alcoholism, tuberculosis, and even rabies. In October of 1849 he was found facedown in a gutter in Baltimore, wearing a stranger’s clothes.
- He created the detective story, and tried to popularize the horror genre.
From the Power Poetry Archive
The original Edgar Allan Poe profile from the classic Power Poetry site.
Poe was addicted to gambling and alcohol. At the University of Virginia, where he attended college, he would show up to classes and exams drunk.
He loved cats- hey, just because you’re kinda creepy doesn’t mean you can’t like animals.
No one knows exactly how he died: some theories include alcoholism, tuberculosis, and even rabies. In October of 1849 he was found facedown in a gutter in Baltimore, wearing a stranger’s clothes.
- He created the detective story, and tried to popularize the horror genre.
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