#i was scrolling back and forth to transcribe the quotes so if they are wrong

[the-ginger-is-loose-again]

It's the anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's death in Baltimore and I happened to get here the same day!

(ID: a dark photograph of the famous black and white portrait of poet and writer Edgar Allen Poe in an oval black frame that is sitting on the mantel of a fireplace. On either side is a large, purple, fake pillar candle that are both "lit"/turned on. Sprigs of fake green vines of ivy lay across the mantel. //End ID)

Took a tour of the house, didn't get a chance to see the grave (I'm here alone without a car and don't want to Uber that... and there's some not great areas between my hotel and the graveyard, so it's walking distance but not really for a single woman, I really wanted to though!!!)

(ID: three photographs

The first depicts a white, red-headed woman dressed in a maroon floral shirt, a blue-gray girl scout face mask, and glasses. She is standing in front of a red brick house with black shutters and a plaque discussing Edgar and his cousin-wife Virginia Clemm Poe. The text is unreadable as it is backwards due to the selfie mode on the camera.

The second image is taken looking straight down to see the stairs the same woman is standing on. It is an internal staircase that is fitted with rubber traction mats. The legs, wearing gray yoga pants and shiny, black shoes, are on two different steps. The left leg is fully extended while the right is bent at the knee to allow the right foot to sit on the next step up from the left foot, highlighting the large height difference.

The last picture is another selfie of the same woman who is now standing in front of a blank, cream wall and a white statue of Edgar Allen Poe that depicts him from mid-chest up.

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The stairs are insane, I really could not live in a multi story old home, I shouldn't have a fear of heights when standing on some claustrophobic ass stairs. Got a new enamel pin for my jacket though, it'll look great with my TMA fear pins!!!!

Also this wall gave me chills, it's like the van gogh doctor who scene, imagine how it would feel reading all of these things people have said about you, in awe of you

(ID: Two pictures of the same cream wall that is covered with various text quotes from different poets and authors talking about Edgar Allen Poe. Several are too cut off behind furniture or corners to read, those that are mostly legible read, in part:

"Poe is hardly an artist. He is rather a Supreme scientist" -D.H. Lawrence

"Your 'Raven' has produced a sensation[cut off] a 'fit of horror' here in England. Some[cut off] my friends are taken by the fear of it a[cut off] some by the music." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Poe was the first writer to write stories about main characters who were bad guys or mad guys and those are some of my favorite stories" -Stephen King

"I do not need to add, I presume, that American critics have often disparaged his poetry. We are familiar with that kind of sparring. The reproaches critics heap upon good poets are the same in all countries." - Charles Baudelaire

"Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the life into it?" -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Few of us can make paper speak as vividly as Poe could" -Russell Baker

"The poems of Poe are lovely things, indeed, but they are as devoid of logical content as so many college yells" -H.L. Mencken

"It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much that I began to make suspense films." -Alfrid Hitchcock

"You might call him 'The Leader of the Cult of the Unusual'." - Jules Verne

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The Stephen King one is my favorite.