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Edgar Allan Poe wrote more comedies and satires than horror stories and is credited with inventing the detective genre.

A rival colleague, Rufus Griswold, created the lasting myth that Poe was a madman and drug addict after his death.

Poe's former fiancée, Providence poet Sarah Helen Whitman, became a key defender of his legacy after their tumultuous breakup.

Halloween is just a month away, so who better to help usher in spooky season than Levi Lionel Leland, author of "Edgar Allan Poe: The Master of the Macabre."

Leland, a Coventry resident who has visited every Poe museum in the country, created the Edgar Allan Poe RI website and offers "A Walking Tour of Poe’s Providence," where he shares his research and passion for the gothic poet.

Ahead of his book signi

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