Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

Edgar Allan Poe has been dead for 160 years, and now on the 200th anniversary of his birth, he is going to receive a "proper" funeral:

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=259125


I don't know about anybody else, but this is kind of spooky!

Edgar Allan Poe was one of the writers whose work I simply could not take. I can admire him for perfecting his particular craft, but his stories were just a little too disturbing for my taste. Horror in general I tend to avoid, but I managed to get through Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein without undue distress; the latter IMO is more of a tragedy than a horror story. But Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft are in a different league. Edgar Allan Poe can be even more disturbing than Lovecraft, and that's saying someting.

As for the new funeral... I could understand some form of memorial service to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth and honour his work, but creating a mock-up of his body is taking things too far. That oversteps the boundaries of good taste.

The corpse mock up thing is just creepy. The first paragraph of that article sounds like it could a plot for one of his stories. I wonder what Poe would think of all this? I bet he could spin it into a truly spooky yarn.