" (Mankowitz 29) While the friends of the family were playing cards he would dress up as a ghost to scare them for fun. .
Poe's first love, Mrs. Standard had died in 1924. She was twice his age, but that didn't stop Poe from loving her. It is reported that Poe would haunt her grave at night. Once Poe took a girl to a graveyard riding on a horse and told the girl, "They will run after us and drag me down" (Mankowitz 24) He was fond of death mentally and sexually. Poe fell in love with a neighborhood girl, Myra Royster, which both father disliked the couple being together. He would write to Myra a lot with passion, hope, and touching feeling. Myra's father found a husband for his daughter so Poe couldn't marry her. Myra didn't want to marry this man but she got a response from Edgar, so she married Mr. Shelton. The reason he didn't write back because he went back to the university. .
Poe attended the University of Virginia in 1926 when he was seventeen years old. He went there to receive a liberal education, promised by his foster father John Allan. After leaving the University of Virginia Poe joined the army in 1827 as a common soldier. Colonel Thayer said, "Poe's poets were serious work and was sensitive and sympathetic." (Mankowitz 74) He was deeply impressed by it at West Point. John Allan didn't want a common soldier showing around a letter from his ungrateful foster-son, which made Mr. Allan, drank more. John Allan Disowned Edgar after he got out of the army. .
Poe worked for number of magazines because he would retire or get discharged because of his erratic behavior and alcoholism. Poe also had another problem among many others, which was gambling, which led to having debts that he refused to pay. He wanted his writing to be unlike any American writer he liked. When he would take opium it would just add to his writing. One of Poe's most powerful fantasies was an obsession with dead women sexually.