![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve become part of popular culture ever since the man’s premature death in 1849 at the age of 40. You know the names of his most iconic tales: “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Black Cat,” and so on. Of course while the real-life Poe did in fact attend West Point (and was later court-martialed and drummed out, partially on purpose), the man is much better known as the legendary author, poet, literary critic, and editor who is widely regarded as the inventor of detective fiction, a major proponent of the short story, and one of the foundational writers of the horror genre. ![]() If you’ve watched the new Netflix mystery drama, The Pale Blue Eye, then you’ve seen a work of fiction in which a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) helps Detective Augustus Landor ( Christian Bale) in his attempts to solve a series of murders at New York’s West Point Military Academy. ![]()
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