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The Poe Shrine

其他書名	Building the World's Finest Edgar Allen Poe Collection
出版	Arcadia Publishing by arrangement with Fonthill Media LLC, 2017
主題	Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Permanent CollectionsBiography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, PhotographersHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Literary Collections / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralTravel / Museums, Tours, Points of InterestTravel / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
ISBN	16349903669781634990363
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CsKwswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Recounts the mysterious history of Edgar Allan Poe's life, work, and the museum preserving his artifacts, founded by devoted but troubled collectors.

Although he is one of the world's most popular authors who continues to thrill and chill readers of all ages, Edgar Allan Poe's life is as enigmatic as his sudden, unexplained death.

In a quest for solutions to the mysteries surrounding the poet's life and work, a group of Poe devotees founded the Poe Shrine in 1922. This body included the world's most prolific Poe collector, a psychiatrist who believed Poe was clairvoyant, and the grandson of Poe's worst enemy.

Within four years of the Shrine's opening, one of the founders had committed suicide, another was committed to a mental hospital, and a third had been banned from ever entering the Shrine again.

Somehow, over the course of 95 years, their museum has managed to assemble to world's finest collection of Poe artifacts and memorabilia featuring the author's boyhood bed, clothing, walking stick, and hair clipped from his head after his death.

Drawing on the museum's archives, The Poe Shrine tells the story of these coveted objects, the people who collected them, and the institution that serves as their repository.