Note: This is a repeat of a blog post from our travels as fulltime RVers. He has been called the man who created the horror literary genre with his stories of murderers, madmen, people being buried alive, and mysterious women who return from the dead. Though Edgar Allan Poe is widely acknowledged as the inventor […]
Note: I was busy all day yesterday making edits to my new John Lee Quarrels book and ran out of time for a blog, but here is a repost of a chilling blog from 2017. In my blog He Created Horror a few days ago, I told you about the life of Edgar Allan Poe […]
In Richmond, Virginia, a city completely immersed in history, we visited a church that traces its roots back to the founding of Henrico Parish in 1611, an outgrowth of the original church in the Jamestown settlement. Richmond was established in 1733, and by 1741, St. John’s Church was completed and welcoming worshipers. Ever since then […]
In my blog He Created Horror a few days ago, I told you about the life of Edgar Allan Poe and our visit to the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia. Today I’ll tell you a story that shows that real life can be more ghastly than anything Poe and authors like him could ever conjure […]
He has been called the man who created the horror literary genre with his stories of murderers, madmen, people being buried alive, and mysterious women who return from the dead. Though Edgar Allan Poe is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern-day detective story and was an innovator in the science fiction genre, his […]
Yesterday we drove to Richmond to play tourist and walked in the footsteps of three well known figures from the past in this wonderful old city that is so steeped in history. Occupied for centuries by native peoples, the first European settlers came to what is now Richmond in the late 17th Century. It became […]