Richard D. L. Fulton Edgar Allan Poe Although Richmond is the place Poe most considered home, Baltimore defines the beginning and the end of his life. ~ “Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore,” The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore The United States Postal Service (USPS) issued two stamps commemorating the noteworthy poet and horror writer,…

Richard D. L. Fulton My wife, who at heart was not a little tinctured with superstition, made frequent allusion to the ancient popular notion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise. ~Edgar Allan Poe, “The Black Cat,” 1845. The 17th and 18th centuries were not a very good time to be a witch…