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Room at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia, meant to recreate "The Philosophy of Furniture."
Room at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia, meant to recreate "The Philosophy of Furniture."

Did you know ...that, in addition to horror fiction, Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on interior decorating called "The Philosophy of Furniture"? First published in 1840, the essay is the basis for a recreated room at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia.

Did you know ...that noted Poe biographer Kenneth Silverman won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Cotton Mather? The Life and Times of Cotton Mather was published in 1984, seven years before Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

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