Edgar Allen Poe’s Cottage, Weak and Weary No More

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New York Times
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: October 26, 2011

It was a poor man’s house, with tiny rooms and low ceilings when Edgar Allan Poe lived there more than 160 years ago, when residing in what later became the Bronx meant breathing fresh country air.

Now this city-owned cottage, where Poe wrote the poems “Annabel Lee” and “The Bells” and the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” is receiving the finishing touches of a nearly half-million dollar renovation. And while the official date to reopen the house after more than a year of work is still uncertain, school groups have started to visit the site, at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road in the Fordham neighborhood, this week. The timing seems only fitting. October is the month of Poe’s mysterious death, in 1849, and ends with Halloween, whose spirit is so expertly evoked by his memorably macabre stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.” (The Film Society Lincoln Center is capping its forthcoming Scary Movies series with a Halloween performance of “Nevermore,” Jeffrey Combs’s one-man show about Poe.)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/ar...?_r=1&src=recg

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[Phogg]

My favorite Poe story...