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BASEMENT HORRORS BRING EDGAR ALLAN POE TO MIND

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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20060516
Author:Steve Kark [email protected]

I've been thinking about Edgar Allan Poe a lot lately. The prospect of cleaning our basement has that effect on me.

Poe's fiction is often set in creaky old houses or dark, decrepit mansions. His settings seem as much a character as any of the people that occupy them.

Unseen horrors scratch inside the walls. Spiders lurk. Mice creep. Bats flutter beneath the eaves. A typical Poe dwelling breathes with hidden life.

Minus the Gothic overtones, this sounds pretty much like home to me. Our house in the woods is hardly decrepit, but it is occasionally creaky and if one considers the wild things ...

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