The Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe is known as a horror author, but he wrote about quite a range of subjects. His works included gothic romance, science fiction, and poetry, and he is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre. But all his stories were imbued with melancholy and existential dread of one kind or another. That may be because that's what he knew. His life story was filled with sadness, despite achieving literary fame. The life story of Edgar Allan Poe reads like a character he might have created: dark, bleak, and mysterious. This short animated version illustrates that pretty well. -via Nag on the Lake