“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.” The writer of these words was enchanted by darkness...thrilled by death. What sort of person would spend their whole life linking hands with Death and her counterparts? Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of Edgar Allan Poe. Famous for romanticizing the darker, more Gothic side of life, E. A. Poe had quite a collection of works from his lesser known stories to his most famous poem, “The Raven”. This great man’s life has been analyzed to death (no pun intended) to find key’s to unlock the maze of his apparent creativity. Here, th