Why Is This Game Named POE, If Edgar Isn't In It?

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鬼殺し wrote:

One of us has extensive post-grad English coursework, a degree in Creative Writing, a published book and has been tapped by GGG to proof read patch notes.

The other is a troll who probably doesn't even know who James Joyce was.

I'll let you figure out which of us can "read English right", although even that might be overestimating things.

I hope there's more to your life than this.

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Templar_G wrote:

I've looked real hard and I can't find Edgar Allan Poe anywhere, or his writings.

I must be missing something.

I'll try again now.

DON'T SPOIL IT FOR ME IF YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS !!!!!!!!!!

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鬼殺し wrote:

You know how they say fact is stranger than fiction? It's usually more horrifying too.

No word of a lie, I'm currently reading the most disturbing thing you'll probably ever find. I had to order a physical copy because it's not available digitally. It's called 'When Rabbit Howls' by and about a famous MPD called Truddi Chase, who had 92 distinct personalities.

...And the first ones emerged when she was 2 years old.

Have a think about what sort of trauma she must have gone through to fragment that thoroughly. One word: step-father. Reading it leaves me almost physically sick, but the way all the different voices negotiate the many, many layers of trauma is compelling as hell. The fact that several of her persons were incredible writers helps. This woman would have been an everyday creative genius if not for what happened to her.

I appreciate well written fiction in its construction and art but nothing beats the horrors of hidden realities to really shake your core.