History as a Battle for the Mind: Edgar Poe as a Cultural Warrior
While he is most known as a “master of the macabre” due to the dark and disturbing topics that emerge in many of his works, the fact is that Poe is operating on a higher level of artistic composition than most realize by investigating the outcome of souls that are in disequilibrium and in opposition with themselves resulting in perverse, self-destructive decisions and outcomes.
Phi Beta Iota: This article is so provocative it has inspired a private report from Robert Steele in The Steele Report, to appear Monday,