“Don’t think that you are in the middle of one of Poe’s most shocking horror stories (“The Black Cat”) if you come across one or two of the coal-colored cats (Edgar
Tag: Southern Literary Messenger
Poe Exposes “Maelzel’s Automated Chess Player,” Part II
Originally Published as part of Murray Ellison’s M.A Thesis on Poe and Science and republished on Dec. 2nd, 2017 on www.thepoeblog.com Original Illustration Published in Poe’s “Automated Chess-Player” In 1836,
How Poe Investigated Claims of an Early “Automated” Computer
An Excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU Master of Arts Thesis. First Published on 11/1/17 in the Poe Museum’s Website: the poeblog.org Literary Historian, Gerald Kennedy writes, “In Poe’s writing career