The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe Seems A Timely Tale
Technology changes, but human nature seldom does
It was a dark and dreary morning when they found him. It would seem fitting, later. After the fact. After four incoherent days and a mysterious death under baffling and bizarre circumstances.
How fitting, we’d say, that the man departed leaving behind one final mystery. How fitting it happened on a dreary, rainy day.
And yet, you might find this an uncommonly timely tale.
It was astoundingly good timing that Joseph W. Walker, of the Baltimore Sun, was heading to Gunner’s Hall, a tavern bustling with activity for he saw an ill-dressed man in the street, stumbling and incoherent.
Not found in a gutter, as some claim. Just disheveled and staggering around outside a tavern in the second largest city in America at the time. Dressed in tatters and periodically calling out the name Reynolds. Like he was looking for someone. Or perhaps announcing himself.
Walker recognized him as the writer, Edgar Allan Poe, instead of mistaking him for some drunken or homeless man, as most passers-by likely did.
He didn’t know why Poe was in Baltimore, but he knew a man in distress when he saw one and before long Poe had been rushed to…
