This story appeared this morning on the BBC website: just over one hundred and sixty years after his death, a second funeral has been enacted to commemorate one of the fathers of modern horror storytelling, Edgar Allen Poe.
Follow this link to read my favourite story of his, The Tell Tale Heart. And here’s another link to an absolutely stunning animated adaptation of the story, voiced by James Mason.
Poe died in Baltimore, in the USA: that’s where his rather touching-looking second funeral took place. But it’s a lesser known fact that he went to school in Stoke Newington. That’s near [sniff] where I used to live before being condemned to a lightless eternity in these caves.
Poe’s work lives on as an inspiration to us all. 
13/10/2009 at 4:20 pm Permalink
Some of the best short stories of this genre ever written.
May his bones rest easy!