The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us, (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery—in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.
— Edgar Allan Poe Modern

Horror, detective fiction

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Opening remarks of a lecture/critique

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c. 1840s

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Strange & Unusual

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https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2018/02/edgar-allan-poe-literary-war-bruc…

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