Ulalume

Spotted: From "datchery8" on Pinterest, 24 October 2018, after Google Image Search

Illustration by W. Heath Robinson for the poem "Ulalume" by the American master of mystery and macabre Edgar Allan Poe, who died on 07 October 1849. A collection of almost 1,000 works by Robinson is housed in the Heath Robinson Museum (Pinner, London, UK), which opened to the public in October 2016. Two years prior, 05 October 2014, the memorial sculpture of the "ghoulish poet and author" by Stefanie Rocknak was unveiled in Edgar Allan Poe Square, Boston, Massachusetts.

In an article, "Pick Poe this October 31st" by Cambridge University's Kevin J. Hayes:

Without hesitation, I recommended Edgar Allan Poe’s “Ulalume,” which I consider the greatest Halloween poem in the history of American literature. Set in a graveyard on Halloween—the night the dead arise—the poem is filled with woodlandish ghouls that guide the path of a lover on the way to the tomb of his beloved.

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