Day #7 of my 7 days of Poe. Finally wrapping this silly stunt up after a week of taking photos and talking about a bunch of Poe. Thanks for all of the likes! 👍 I don‘t know what I‘m doing, I‘m just winging it. I‘ve been doing this since I was 1 day old. I remember laying there in the hospital, wearing my onesie, acting like everything was cool, when all I wanted to do was go home. I got my first Poe tattoo soon after my skull hardened... 😜✌️

Day #6 of my 7 days of Poe. One more day left,,,whew. 😓 Took this photo last night, because I‘m currently standing in line to meet the guys of Blue October (and a concert afterwards). 😁 This is ‘The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe‘ (1909)... R. Brimley Johnson/Oxford Edition. One of my favorites, because for 100+ years old, it‘s still in near mint condition. 🤗

Day #5 of my 7 days of Poe, and still my autocorrect thinks I want to type ‘Pie‘. 😒🥧 I couldn‘t find the actual book listed, so I grabbed something close. The version pictured is actually sort of a weird copy that you don‘t see that often. It‘s from Time Warner Libraries (1991). The art was done by a tattoo artist friend of mine who is crazy talented! Google ‘Roger Pearson Tattoos‘ if you want to see more... 😉

Day #4 of my 7 days of Poe. This is getting more difficult than I thought it would be... Pulling everything off of the shelves and taking photos. 🤪 This is ‘The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe‘, edited by J.W. Ostrom (published in 1948). Also a little raven statue, because it‘s Poe, and it‘s a raven, and you know.... 🤔 A bluebird, or an elephant, or a squirrel with an acorn wouldn‘t make a lot of sense. 😛

Day #3 of my 7 days of Poe... 😛

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee...

Part of my infatuation with Living Dead dolls. Yeah, I‘m a grown man (my wife questions that), and I play with dolls, OK? 🤫 Fortunately, I purchased this a while ago, before the value shot through the roof. 🚀 Mezco only made a few dolls about real people. 😉 That little Poe figure in front is possessed. He knocks down books..

Day 2, of my 7 days of Poe stuff... ? I bought this through a Kickstarter project (https://goo.gl/sRf1Nb) a few years ago. The illustrations are by David G. Forés. I forgot what package this was but it included the LP and several other things. There are so many Kickstarter projects, some Poe related, but I try to stick to my favorites. It‘s worth keeping a close eye on their site, just in case something special turns up. ?

I‘ve missed posting weird stuff, so I‘m going to post 7 of my stranger Poe things in 7 days. 😁 Day 1 - Poe, Master of Macabre (P.H. Bellas, Xavier Press 1995). Copy #83 of 200. The little thing in the (bottom right) corner is a piece of grass from his gravesite. There‘s a miniature sleeve on the back cover that this slides into. The book contains several little collectibles like this... 😋

If you follow @NatalieR, you may have noticed that she had our little dog Sahara in almost all of her Litsy photos. The last photo of Sahara was with one of my Poe books (that I begged her to read). Little did we know that Sahara would be gone a couple of days later (after complications from surgery). @NatalieR didn‘t want to draw any sympathy with her own post, so I wanted to honor them both with this one. I hope she‘s OK with me sharing this.

My 1st edition of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (from The Folio Society) that @NatalieR bought me a couple of years ago. 🤗 I haven‘t fully opened the book yet (only slightly), because it‘s too pretty. Is that bad? 🤭 I ‘posed‘ it beside my Poe (Richard Masloski) statue. I found this one on eBay awhile back when the price was more reasonable. The Poe Museum, in Richmond sells them now. He keeps watch over my front door... 🤫

My ‘book haul‘ for the day... 😍 Thanks to Black Swan Books... 📚 Publication date is only 18 years ago (2000), but the 22kt gold accents on bound leather, put a hurt on my wallet. 😰 So instead of ten books, I left the store with one...LOL This is the Easton Press Collector's Library of Famous Edition. Excellent condition! 🤗 I‘m so happy right now!!! 😋 #poe #thebells #edgarallanpoe

1. The same age as Jack Kerouac was (when he died), I act like I‘m still 20 though... 🤫
2. One of each 👱‍♂️👱‍♀️
3. My dog is my daughter 🐶
4. DMT: The Spirit Molecule (tagged)
5. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck
6. 😜
7. Uhhhh
8. I don‘t like following rules
9. Dog (see #3 above)
10. Tea (sweet only)
11. Let‘s Pretend This Never Happened
12. @SiriuslyWeasley & @GarthRanzz (tagging two instead of one, see #8 above) 😈

Just started the audiobook yesterday. I‘m now enjoying my drive to and from work again. 😊 Arthur Morey narrates the book. His voice is perfect for these type of books and his style is spot on. He narrated Acid Test, which I just finished a few weeks ago (and was phenomenal). So far Rick Strassman‘s book has been incredible. I‘m only about 15% of the way into it, but I 💙 it! 🤗

Arrrggghh! I had to throw in the towel on this one...😞 As much as I love Eddie, the audiobook just wasn‘t for me. Maybe the book itself would be better, but “footnote, blah, blah, blah, end of footnote”, every 15 seconds just tore me down. I‘m still trying to recover, almost the way the guy in the photo being consoled by the referee feels. My drives to and from work were excruciating, so it‘s time for me to find something else. Sorry, Eddie... 😕

When you love the book so much that the author starts to appear on the back of your hand (with a little pain and swelling in the process)... LOL 😜 Actually, I got this ‘art‘ a few years ago. Note, the bottom/side of his face are roots, and from the top of his head grows a spooky tree (not pictured) with ravens sitting in it. #poe #edgarallanpoe #tattoo (sorry, I couldn‘t find this book in the Litsy catalog, so I had to reference another)

There is no middle ground in my brain... LOL🤭 And no, I‘m not introverted or anything (just 97%)... 🤫 hehe

When you absolutely, positively get incredibly lucky and pull one of the few ‘signed copies‘ of End of Watch from a stack of 1,000+ books at a Stephen King event. This was from his End of Watch tour of a few select cities. 😛 I‘m a little late in the game to Litsy, so I‘m posting some of my older stuff... Thanks, Mr. King!!! #signedbook #stephenking #endofwatch #signededition #firstedition

It‘s been almost a year to the day that I got to meet one of my favorite authors. Major depression + anxiety = an extreme case of OCD + lots of meds (yeah, I know), so it makes it very difficult to read, so I rely on a lot of audiobooks. Jenny‘s books are the only ones I‘ve been able to read (cover to cover). My signed copy of Let‘s Pretend This Never Happened (Hardcover) is a rare thing indeed, and one of my most treasured. I 💜 you, Jenny! 😘

I‘m struggling, I really am. I‘m wanting to hit the ‘kill switch‘ at any given moment, but something tells me to keep going, like fighting through some sort of pain. I don‘t know how long I‘m going to be able to last. I‘m a big fan of Eddie, and he‘s a very intelligent man, but the audiobook ‘footnotes‘ he keeps breaking to are slowly killing me. Wish me luck my fellow Littens. I‘m on chapter 6 of 31... 😕

A great book! I can‘t imagine the pain that Susannah must have experienced during some of the crazy days of hell that she went through. I listened to it (Audible special deal), and the narrator did an incredible job of helping the reader relive the story. To go through this and come out on the other side is nothing short of miraculous. #brainonfire #audible

Being a huge Lindsey fan, I‘m too biased to give an accurate review. I loved the book, although (and this hurts me to say) the first couple of chapters were for a younger audience. I used the exact signature from my personal signed copy for an addition to my tattoo of The Oval Portrait, by E.A.Poe, with Lindsey being the subject of the painting...#ovalportrait #poe

"She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee....”

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe w/memoir by J. H. Ingram (published 1884). Excellent condition! 😋

Couldn‘t find the right title in the Litsy database. Anyway, finally getting around to posting a Christmas gift from my BFF (aka wife). ☺️

I'm not sure why I gave another one of these books a chance? I just finished Magic Mushrooms, by the same author and was utterly disappointed. Blandly stated out, like reading an index. I chose the audiobook, and the narrator makes things almost impossible to listen to, with this slow 'Bueller, Bueller' type of voice. I had to turn the speed up to x2, just to survive the book. Also, learn how to pronounce 'Ayahuasca', it's not 'Ayawooooooooohska'.

Everybody's free to wear sunscreen.... This was exactly what I was thinking as I read this book. It was filled with advice, "whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience..." :) If you remember this song from the 90's, you'll absolutely love this book. It was a complete life changer for me. Perfectly written!

Do one thing everyday that scares you...

But trust me on the sunscreen... ?

One more of the Poe tattoos before I go to bed. I have so many, I could keep this up for days... 😆 The quote describes me sometimes... LOL

“I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.” - Edgar Allan Poe (The Black Cat) #poe #tattoos #edgarallanpoe #theblackcat

One of my many E.A. Poe tattoos (I‘ll post my other Poe tattoos later). Yes, I AM a Poe fan! 😁 This was the first tattoo where I gave the artist full control, and I had no clue what it was until she finished. I didn‘t even peek. 😍 That‘s the top of Annabel Lee‘s head at the bottom of the photo.

We loved with a love that was more than love. - E.A. Poe, Annabel Lee (one of my favorite lines ever). #poe #annabellee #edgarallanpoe #tattoo

I should have known by the title of this book that it probably wasn't going to suit me. I mean, 'Magic Mushrooms' (I guess it's one step up from 'Shrooms')? I understand, this is what a lot of people choose to call them, but when putting together an informational piece of literature, why not use the title 'Psilocybin Mushrooms' to target a more serious reader? #psilocybin #mushrooms #research #psychedelics Goodreads -> https://goo.gl/k12Xsm

My very first Litsy post! 🤗 Easily one of the best things that I've read in a very long time. Incredible from beginning to end. It is very well researched and written. Written to the point that you almost feel like you're having a conversation directly with the author, and the other people that he researched for the book (Michael, Rick, and Nick). Each with their own life changing story. Goodreads -> https://goo.gl/SAuCpy #lsd #mdma #research