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WHY IS EDGAR ALLAN POE SO COOL?

February 5, 2015 J.W. Ocker 0

Edgar Allan Poe is less a man of mystery and more a man of mysteries—from the ones that fired from the tip of his pen to start-gun the detective genre to the ones surrounding his life […]

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