Edgar Allan Poe's Cottage

Poe spent the last years of his life in this cottage. He wrote “The Bells” and “Annabelle Lee” here. His wife Virginia passed away here and the bed she slept/died in is still there on display! I grew up right down the road from here and as a little girl I always thought the place was a kind of spooky. My father would tell me stories about Poe and I grew to love the place. I’d only been inside once when I was about 8 years old and I remember holding my fathers hand tightly because I thought the place was haunted. Maybe it is. Years later, in my early twenties, I visited again and loved it. Not just because one of the greatest writers of all time lived there, but because it holds so many special childhood memories for me.