Like many smart people, Edgar Allen Poe was a fan of cats. Notably, he had a tortoiseshell who would
Like many smart people, Edgar Allen Poe was a fan of cats. Notably, he had a tortoiseshell who would sit on his shoulder as he wrote, whom he named Catterina, which is a much better cat name than Lovecraft’s.BONUS FACT! In addition to popularising the short story format (with some even saying that he coined the term “short story”, which I’m in of dubious of, personally), Poe also was one of the first, if not THE first, writers in the detective story genre.His character C. Auguste Dupin, from the stories Murder of the Rue Morgue and the Purloined Letter, establishing many elements which would be later adopted by characters such as Sherlock Holmes (who references Dupin several times within his own stories, albeit as a fictional character within Holmes’ universe). -- source link
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