Spooky Season Post # 31: Edgar Allen Poe

. I have the distinct pleasure of living in the three cities where Poe lived while he wrote his magnificent Gothic poems, short stories, and novellas: Baltimore, Manhattan, and Richmond. In fact, my gal pal Jen and I, during our doctoral studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore, would occasionally bring our lunch to the cemetery where Poe was buried, sitting mere yards away from his gravestone. I dedicated my novel, "The Bedfordshire Warlock," to him, as scenes in the novel were inspired by Poe's classics "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Raven." Happy Halloween/Samhain!