Poe lived at the beginning of the 19 century. The Victorian Age in Britain and prospective development of naive and yound United States. Edgar Allan Poe could be claimed the creator of detective genre of fiction, moreover he's usually mentioned as predecessor of such giants of thrillers as H.Lovecraft and my adorable Stephen King.
Poe's life itself was painted in dark colours. His childhood he spent at cemetery. The school was so poor that children had to study near the crosses and tombs.
The end of his life is also quite mysterious - found dead on the bench. A good plot for thriller, isn't it?
And I can't but mention the mysterious visitor of his tomb.
The Poe Toaster is an unofficial nickname given to a mysterious person (or more probably two persons in succession, possibly father and son) who, for over seven decades, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the stone marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday. The shadowy figure, dressed in black with a wide-brimmed hat and white scarf, would pour himself a glass of cognac and raise a toast to Poe's memory, then vanish into the night, leaving three roses in a distinctive arrangement and the unfinished bottle of cognac. Onlookers gathered annually in hopes of glimpsing the elusive Toaster, who did not seek publicity and was rarely seen or photographed.
According to eyewitness reports and notes accompanying offerings in later years, the original Toaster made the annual visitation from sometime in the 1930s (though no report appeared in print until 1950) until his death in 1998, after which the tradition was passed to "a son". Controversial statements were made in some notes left by the post-1998 Toaster, and in 2006 an unsuccessful attempt was made by several onlookers to detain and identify him. In 2010 there was no visit by the Toaster,nor did he appear in 2011 or 2012, triggering speculation that the 75-year tradition had ended.
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