Posted in books, writing

No Roses for Poe

Posted on by D. D. Syrdal

For the first time in 60 years, the anticipated roses and half-bottle of cognac did not appear at the gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe.

Today, is of course, the 201st anniversary of his birth. For whatever reason, the mysterious visitor, whose identity has never been known, did not appear and the assembled crowd of about 3 dozen called off the vigil around 5:30 a.m.

Despite this, he was clearly not entirely forgotten. Happy birthday, Edgar.

Author:

Writer of vampire stories and science fiction. First novel, "Revenants Abroad", available now at Amazon. If you like a vampire you can go out drinking with and still respect yourself in the morning, I think you'd like Andrej.

2 thoughts on “No Roses for Poe”

  1. I read about that in the news and was irrationally sad. Evidently, the original man said he would pass on the tradition to his sons. If they can’t do it anymore- hopefully someone else will pick up the torch. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were hundreds of roses and bottles of cognac next year!

    Like

  2. The trick is doing it without being revealed 😉

    It would be sad to see the tradition end, although surely with all the Poe fans someone will be willing to see to its continuation.

    Like

Comments are closed.