Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe was an American author, poet, and literary critic. Additionally, Poe is an author considered to be an anti-transcendentalist and is well known for his poem “The Raven.” Poe also wrote rather dark stories often circulating around murder, revenge, torture, and insanity. Some of Poe’s short stories include “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “Murders in the Rue Morgue.” “And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave” (Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”). But in truth, we all have thought about death and what it will be like. Even before losing someone, death would find it’s way into my thoughts, but having lost a close friend, death is now something that often creeps into my mind. Is it peaceful, painless? Or is it terrifyingly unnumbed? Is there life after death? How can we really know unless we’re dead? We all have that sheer fact to live with of never truly knowing when or how it could happen. In some cases, it can give life a little more adrenalin. But for others, it can lead to fear. Why leave the house if you can fall on the way out? But if you never leave, would you ever become known enough to be remembered? The curiosity of death affects us however we let it. But if we allow it to rule our mind we can lose it. We’ve all thought about death, but we can only imagine what it will be like.