Edgar Allan Poe has been – all too literally – honoured with a posthumous funeral in Baltimore, a mere 160 years after he died.
Passersby gathered to witness some of the greatest names in the arts pay their respects to one of their own: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 69 years deceased, was there, along with Sir Alfred Hitchcock, who passed away in 1980, and hundreds more acted as pallbearers and mourners as a replica of Poe’s body was pulled through the streets of the city of Baltimore, which is claiming him. The aim of the event was to rectify an injustice.
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