The Strange Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe’s Hair

The story of the hair begins on October 8, 1849, at a pre-funeral viewing for the author of The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart. In attendance were eight people, including his cousins Neilson Poe and Elizabeth Rebecca Herring, and an acquaintance, the doctor Joseph Evans Snodgrass. Poe had passed away the day before. During the morose event, Ms. Herring did something that was all the rage at the time: she took clippings of the dead man’s hair.
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