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Edgar Allan Poe’s works were disregarded at first in the United States, but they gained soaring popularity after well-known French poet Charles Baudelaire, whose own writings were influenced by Poe, gave them recognition in the period around 1850.  As the years have passed since then, his stories and poems have been immortalized from the classroom, to film, to the numerous authors who count Poe as a major influence on their own literary creations.…

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Although my book, The Poe Consequence, features ideas borrowed more from The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum, I do utilize one very important concept concerning specific lines from one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most renowned works, “The Fall of the House of Usher.” First published in the year 1839, this remarkably horrifying Gothic tale features a dark, depressing landscape, a haunted mansion, a strange disease, and a dead body. http://bit.ly/1N4MRf0

Is tarot card reading real? Can someone who wears flowing robes foretell the future just by looking at the cards, or is tarot reading simply an elaborate scam to entice you to spend your money? Let’s try to look at things from a neutral point of view and learn more about both sides. http://bit.ly/1XptEcM

In the first chapter of my book, The Poe Consequence, the reader is introduced to a mysterious psychic named Madame Sibilia.  Her grim demeanor and ominous interpretation of the Tarot Cards during a reading launches a series of events that spiral out of control and is a major premise of the story.

The following is a brief history of the origin of Tarot Cards http://bit.ly/1ON9YAh