Poe’s cottage in the Bronx, on a windswept night. Poe’s dates and moves are very complex, but said to have been his home from 1844 to 1849.

Lovecraft knew it well, though it was a bit ‘tricked up and touristy’ — having been physically moved and re-landscaped by the 1920s. He came to prefer another Poe place as feeling more authentic to the day-visitor, and also relished Poe’s Richmond when he visited. However, he did write of the cottage… “In that shrine of America’s greatest literary artist, a brooding atmosphere lingers, and unseen wings seem to brush the cheek of the worshipper” — H.P. Lovecraft.