The Little Book of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe, the original master of the macabre and dark Romantic writer of Gothic novels, detective stories, poetry, short stories and satires, is synonymous with themes of premature burial, death, madness, and mysticism. His life was intriguing, and his early death at 40 was appropriately mysteriousdying in delirium (possibly opium, alcohol, rabies, or syphilis induced) in someone else's clothes on the streets of Baltimore. One of the most