Mary Shelley’s husband Percy was only 29 when he tragically drowned in a sailing accident. Heartbroken and inconsolable, the widowed Mary kept a macabre and bizarre keepsake of her one true love.
A few nights before he died, Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering the streets in a fugue state. Disturbingly, he was wearing someone else’s clothes—and as he was dying, he kept shouting one word.
Emily Dickinson was mysterious and infamously reluctant to publish her poetry. Her work has inspired generations of readers—but few know her dark history.
