It's been 160 years since the great master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40, and only 7 people attended his first funeral. Fans decided it was time for him to be honored properly with a full scale memorial in Baltimore on October 11 of this year. The author/editor Ellen Datlow describes the funeral service in her blog and shares the eulogy she wrote for him.

If you'd like to honor the great one yourself, watch this performance by Vincent Price of Poe's poem The Raven and revel in the chilly goodness of his macabre sense of story.