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John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant, adopted him. His father, an Irish-American actor, died the following year, and his mother, an English actress, the year after, in Richmond, Virginia. Edgar Allan Poe, is considered the greatest of all writers of macabre stories, was born in Boston, Massachesetts, in 1809.

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