The Fire-Buff
Victorian Gothic Terror!
“Of course, I have read a lot of
Poe,” the thin, tweed-bedecked man addressed me, tamping his
burl pipe heartily upon the spittoon. “And I know of his
penchant for such things.”
At the moment, I understand that I
must have agreed with him, I must have thought we shared some common
ground. A love of the literature of [...]