The awesome church historian Pat McNamara cranks out great features on lesser-known episodes of Catholic history at a terrifying clip, and for All Hallows Eve found a link between Catholicism and the poet of spookiness, Edgar Allan Poe -- a man marked by genuine tragedy, not just a spinner of Gothic tales as some would have it.
Pat details Poe's later years in the Bronx, where he wandered, grief-stricken after the death of his wife, across the campus of what would become Fordham University:
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