{"id":8255,"date":"2009-12-09T22:44:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T05:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2009-12-10T02:41:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:41:35","slug":"the-mysterious-death-and-strange-afterdeath-of-mr-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/the-mysterious-death-and-strange-afterdeath-of-mr-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Death (and Strange Afterdeath) of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MidnightWhilst the bicentennial of the nativity of Edgar Allan Poe was amply commemorated<\/a> here at The Cimmerian<\/em>, we somehow let the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of his death on October 7\u00a0slip right by us. However, J. Kingston Pierce over at The Rap Sheet<\/a><\/em>, one of the premiere crime-fiction blogs, was on the job. In his entry, “What Happened to Edgar?”, <\/a>Pierce\u00a0looks at Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe<\/a><\/em> by John Evangelist Walsh. The book was Walsh’s third foray into Poe-related historical research and he admits to being fascinated by Poe and his works. Check it out.<\/p>\n

Pierce also took a look at the shenanigans surrounding the possession of Poe’s remains, as well as the lavish commemorative celebrations sponsored by the city of Baltimore this year, in “Evermore, Mr. Poe, Evermore<\/a>.” Our own Steve Tompkins also\u00a0commented on\u00a0the nigh-Illiadic struggle over Poe’s remains in this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Considering the size of Cross Plains in comparison to Baltimore\u00a0and the\u00a0relatively recent date of Robert E. Howard’s passing, I would say the organizers of Robert E. Howard Days<\/a>, and REH fandom in general, have\u00a0plenty to be proud of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst the bicentennial of the nativity of Edgar Allan Poe was amply commemorated here at The Cimmerian, we somehow let the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of his death on October 7\u00a0slip right by us. However, J. Kingston Pierce over at The Rap Sheet, one of the premiere crime-fiction blogs, was on the job. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-general","category-edgar-allan-poe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8262,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}