The final days of the American writer who waxed poetic on the macabre is a greater mystery than anything he ever wrote American writer Edgar Allan Poe embodied mystery and the macabre in his work.

“the boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague,” and his voice is still heard from beyond the grave. As Ocker puts it now, “Never RIP, Edgar Allan Poe.

On Oct. 3, 1849, American poet Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious, confused and wearing someone else’s ratty clothes in a Baltimore, Maryland gutter. Yes, literally! He was taken to a nearby ...