Posted on 04/15/2020 9:11:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1841, Peter Robinson hanged for a New Jersey murder. Little could he have imagined that he was on his way to the literary canon.
A wealthy merchant and banker named Abraham Suydam had disappeared, and suspicion quickly settled on Robinson — one of his debtors, who suddenly seemed to be a little bit flush with cash and a timepiece too rich for his station in life...
It is commonly thought — though there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
One of Poe’s best. With his drug and alcohol issues this makes a lot of sense. The man wrote like a drug tortured soul. Given the true story and Poe’s proclivities. I can see the possibilities.
Thank you. I didn’t know this existed. I will have to remember it for Halloween.
Buy the album.
I always thought a Halloween mix should include:
Night on the Bare/Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
Totentanz - Liszt
and for good measure,
Lark’s Tongues in Aspic Part II - King Crimson
https://youtu.be/mbwWK6rJT6s
And one of the best Simpson’s, when Lisa lost her title as Diorama Queen.
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