The Allan’s in Richmond, Virginia adopted Poe when he was three years old.

Poe’s new father was a carrier and a shipper of mainly tobacco with his partner Charles Ellis, a former clerk. John Allan and Charles Ellis had a farm that enabled them to deal everything from wheat and hay to wines and coffee, tom even horses, pigs, and slaves. John Allan also baptized him when he was little. John Allan wanted to leave Poe back in Richmond when he and the family went to Liverpool, England. He went to school in England from 1815 t

When Poe was eleven John Allan was having an affair with a lady by the name of Ellis, which Poe lived with for a little, while when the Allan’s came back to Virginia. He went to school in England from 1815 to 1820. When Poe was growing up he was very fond of black music and folk songs. When Poe was a child the “Red Death” (Mankowitz 14) haunted him. This was an illness he suffered from. Poe would also have a haunting image in his head seeing his mother die on the stage performing all the time. He also had a requiring nightmare of a dead cold hand covering his face when he was about fourteen. The hand was his mother’s hand. Poe became interested in poems when he was fourteen. His first lines to a poem were “Last night with many cares and toils oppressed Weary… I laid me on a couch to rest.” (Mankowitz 29) While the friends of the family were playing cards he would dress up as a ghost to scare them for fun.

In 1833 he won fifty dollars from the Baltimore Saturday Visitor for his short story called M.S. Found in a Bottle. Using opium would make him have visions of the dead awaking and phantoms coming. Opium would also help him with his horrific needs of necrophilic. Poe was a big drinker in his life. He started drinking when he was 17 until his death. Thomas Tucker described Poe's drinking style as " He would always seize that tempting glass, generally unmixed with sugar or water-in fact perfectly straight and without the least apparent pleasure, swallow the contents, never pausing until the last drop has passed his. One glass at a time was all he could take, but this was sufficient to rouse his whole nervous nature into a state of strongest excitement, which found vent in a continuos flow of wild, fascinating talk that irresistibly enhanced every listener with siren like power." (Mankowitz 37)

One of Poe’s Friends, Rufus Griswold Turned against him after his death and made some of Poe’s letters to make him look cruel and mean to everyone and ev

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