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A few weeks ago, my brother and future sister-in-law sent me a package from the states. It included a collection of Edgar Allen Poe short stories. I’ve always been a Poe fan, but I’ve only rerecently discovered gems like The Purloined Letter. If you thought Poe only wrote macabre buried-alive stories, you should check out his detective stories, they’re like good Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries. The Purloined Letter has the clever revenge motives of The Cask of Amontadillo but without being quite so creepy.
Now that I live alone in a creaky house, though, the only place suitable for reading Poe is in the middle of the park in broad daylight.