Edgar Allan Poe: The man behind the Macabre

By Maurissa marie Powell

  • Edgar Allan Poe was born

  • Edgar's mother died

    His mother died of tb when he was almost 3.

  • Flees to Boston

    Edgar flees to Boston to the military under the name of Edgar Perry.

  • Death

    His step mom dies of tb.

  • Moved in with his aunt and 8 year old cousin in Boltimore

  • His foster dad dies and edgar gets nothing out of his will.

  • He leaves his aunts house and gets a job as a editor at a paper place in Boston.

  • He writes the very first decetive story "The murder in the Rue Morgile"

  • wrote the mass of the red death

  • Wrote the tell tell heart

  • Edgar Allan Poe Died

  • Boarding school

    His foster dad sent him to boarding school.(Not a good boarding school.)

  • He suppose to be in New York but was found in Boltimore maryland.

    He became a raging acholic

  • Abandoned

    His dad abandoned his father when he was 1.

  • Death

    When he was 15 his first childhood love dies of brain cancer.