God has purposes above our ken. It was necessary in His plan for Poe to be, macabre though his expressed sentiments were. One needs to watch one’s life if one is a believer, because it may be the more scandalous things that are remembered.
“...because it may be the more scandalous things that are remembered.”
Scholars today believe all those supposed scandalous accusations about Poe were only smears, character assassination.