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Edgar Allan Poe began his carrer writing science fiction. Know why he switched to horror?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/edgar-allan-poe-proper-burial-160-years/story?id=8799941

"He tried the science fiction. But people wanted blood, they wanted horror, they wanted premature burial. They wanted superstition," says the curator, who has run the museum for the past 30 years. "They wanted murder. And he gave it to them right between the eyes."

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