January 19, 1809: Writer Edgar Allan Poe is born. While no one is certain from where Poe developed his macabre style, literary historians generally point to Poe’s fifth birthday, when his parents hired Usher the Split Personality Clown, who traveled with a gorilla that had a fucked-up eye. Throughout the young writer’s birthday party, Usher, who had a penchant for Italian wine kept telling the young boy that his present was in the room only he wasn’t looking in the right place. Eventually Poe found the box, which contained just a note that read, “I will bury you alive.”

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