On the 19th of January Edgar Allen Poe’s devoted readers ( of which I am one )

recognized his Edgar’s birthday.

I celebrated by binge watching ” The Fall of The House of Usher” on Netflix because it is a damn fine tribute to Poe’s works. Plus I loved the series and wanted to watch it  AGAIN and on top of that I was sick and couldn’t do much anyway.

So as I watched the death of Lenore it came to me that any one of Poe’s creations would have scoffed at the idea of celebrating a dead man’s birthday.

They would have been more likely to celebrate that person’s death.

And that my friend is what separates some Poe’s fans from the others on the finely spun web of words that made images that he left us to celebrate always.

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