A newly-republished essay on “The Political Thought of Edgar Allan Poe” which has until now been locked up in an obscure paper journal published in the 1990s. It seems like a useful addition for those reading Joshi’s Decline of the West, the key book on Lovecraft’s politics and philosophy, and who might be left wanting an overview of what Lovecraft could have taken from his idol Poe — beyond the obvious inheritance of the fictional style/settings and the aesthetic repertoire.

Poe’s room at the University of Virginia. A Creative Commons Attribution image which is set to be removed in the Flickr-purge in January 2019.