Edgar Allen Poe

SinisterDick · Post by **SinisterDick** » Sun 04 Mar, 2007 7:27 pm

I've heard that Edgar Allen Poe visited Leeds in the 1830s, and that he was inspired by an old pendulum in St John's Church to write the Pit and the Pendulum. Is this true? Can anyone shed any light on this?

FLITZ · Post by **FLITZ** » Sun 04 Mar, 2007 9:36 pm

According to quite a few biographers this is true.

wsmith · Post by **wsmith** » Sat 10 Mar, 2007 10:04 am

Poe came to England with his family in 1815 when he will have been 6 years old. He went to grammar school in Irvine, in Scotland, then rejoined his family in London in 1816. Maybe he passed through Leeds when travelling between the two? That room might make a bit of a creepy impression on a 7 year old, specially one with an imagination like his!