Edgar Allan Poe was a depressive indolent drunk failure who married his 13-year-old cousin and spent his life composing purposefully obnoxious, repellant stories because "To be appreciated, you must be read," and he felt that the controversy would get him read. Which was astute of him. His Dupin sto...
I picked this up so that I could read Pym: A Novel homages Pym, even including the cries of "tekeli-li!" (In the interest of full disclosure, I got that information off Wikipedia and my closest experiences with Lovecraft involve wearing various Lovecraft-inspired perfume oils from Black Phoenix Alc...