Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept a profoundly dark personal memento locked inside her writing desk. What was it?

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Edgar Allan Poe was briefly enlisted in the US Army under a fake name, but even more bizarrely, he was expelled from West Point after showing up to a public parade wearing nothing but his white belt and gloves.

Edgar Allan Poe was briefly enlisted in the US Army under a fake name, but even more bizarrely, he was expelled from West Point after showing up to a public…

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Dickens carried a compass to arrange his bed

Charles Dickens could write a thousand-page serial, but he couldn't sleep if a bed was facing the wrong way. He carried a compass everywhere he traveled,…

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Fernando Pessoa created more than 70 personas

Using one pen name is amateur hour. The Portuguese writer created over seventy highly elaborate, entirely separate personas, giving each of them different…

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Casanova ended his life organizing books

The universe has a spectacular sense of humor. Europe's most notorious seducer and adventurer ended up utterly miserable, spending his final decade…

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Novelist Edgar Allan Poe published a terrifying survival story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew who brutally cannibalized a young cabin boy named Richard Parker to avoid starving to death on the open ocean.

Novelist Edgar Allan Poe published a terrifying survival story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew who brutally cannibalized a young cabin boy named Richard…

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Alexandre Dumas raced his own ghostwriter

When you farm out your novels, you have to maintain dominance somehow. The author of 'The Three Musketeers' literally challenged his own hired collaborator to…

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Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept a profoundly dark personal memento locked inside her writing desk. What was it?

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Edgar Allan Poe was briefly enlisted in the US Army under a fake name, but even more bizarrely, he was expelled from West Point after showing up to a public parade wearing nothing but his white belt and gloves.

Dickens carried a compass to arrange his bed

Fernando Pessoa created more than 70 personas

Casanova ended his life organizing books

Novelist Edgar Allan Poe published a terrifying survival story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew who brutally cannibalized a young cabin boy named Richard Parker to avoid starving to death on the open ocean.

Alexandre Dumas raced his own ghostwriter

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