An eye-witness account of cholera-stricken Paris in 1832, including a visit to a hospital full of the dying.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 28, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Panics , Victorian
and tagged cholera , cholera in Paris , disease narratives , Edgar Allan Poe , epidemic eye-witnesses , epidemics , Masque of the Red Death , Nathaniel Parker Willis , Second Cholera Pandemic
Kate Field and the Letter from Poe Journalist Lilian Whiting claimed that the spirit of her friend Kate Field directed the disposition of a valuable letter from Edgar Allan Poe.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 20, 2015
in Death , Ephemera , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Edgar Allan Poe , Joseph M. Field , Kate Field , Kate Field and the Letter from Poe , Lilian Whiting , Spiritualism
The Pen From Poe’s Coffin In honor of the death of Edgar Allan Poe on this date in 1849, a tale about a macabre artifact from Poe’s tomb.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 7, 2014
in Death , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Strange Deaths , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death souvenirs , Edgar Allan Poe , George Cochrane Hazelton , Poe souvenirs , The Pen From Poe's Coffin , The Raven , The Raven: The Love Story of Edgar Allan Poe , Victorian coffin