Portrait shows morbid writer Poe in more flattering terms

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

BALTIMORE -- Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years -- and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair.

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