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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature

Quoth the raven "Nevermore."

Tuesday January 20, 2004
Edgar Allen Poe's death in 1849 is a topic still shrouded in mystery. After visiting Virginia as a lecturer, Poe disappeared and was later found in Baltimore, in horrible condition. He died in the hospitable four days later.

100 years afterwards, in 1949, a mysterious figure began marking January 19, Edgar Allen Poe's birthday, by slinking into the Baltimore cemetary where Poe is buried, and leaving French cognac and three roses on his grave in the middle of the night.

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