Edgar Allan Poe

A legendary man, no doubt.

I stumbled upon his works through the musical genius of a band called 'The Alan Parson's Project' (courtesy of my elder brother and mentor Chris).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZyNKrYo9I4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_Mystery_and_Imagination_(Alan_Parsons_Project_album)

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."...


http://www.houseofusher.net/raven.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raven

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles. He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talents into play. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition...

https://www.poemuseum.org/works-morgue.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue