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  2. MS. Found in a Bottle - Wikipedia

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    Poe scholar Scott Peeples summarizes the importance of "MS. Found in a Bottle" as "the story that launched Poe's career". [12] The story was likely an influence on Herman Melville and bears a similarity to his novel Moby-Dick. As scholar Jack Scherting noted: [13] Two well-known works of American fiction fit the following description.

  3. Path of Exile - Wikipedia

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    Players can create multiple accounts and even have more than one logged in at a time. Path of Exile mainly offers cosmetic item skins for players willing to spend money on the game, but it does also gate specific account features such as semi-automated public trading inventories or additional character slots behind a paywall. It is also ...

  4. PlayerAuctions - Wikipedia

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    PlayerAuctions is a digital marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of various types of gaming genre such as Massively multiplayer online game (MMO) games, First-person shooters (FPS), Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), Mobile game, survival games, battle royale game etc. so they can buy and sell digital assets.

  5. Poe Toaster - Wikipedia

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    Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.

  6. The Cask of Amontillado - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, Lou Reed included an adaptation on the extended edition of his Poe-themed album The Raven, titled "The Cask" and performed by Willem Dafoe (as Montresor) and Steve Buscemi (as Fortunato). Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask of Amontillado (2011) stars David JM Bielewicz and Frank Tirio, Jr. It was directed by Thad Ciechanowski, produced by Joe ...

  7. The Imp of the Perverse - Wikipedia

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    The narrator explains at length his theory on "The Imp of the Perverse", which he believes causes people to commit acts against their self-interest.This essay-like discussion is presented objectively, though the narrator admits that he is "one of the many uncounted victims of the Imp of the Perverse". [1]

  8. Message in a bottle - Wikipedia

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    The bottle was retrieved on July 20 by Capt. Robert Oke on the revenue cutter Caledonia [50] off the coast of Newfoundland (46.36N, 55.30W). [51] In 1856, a bottle was found on the Hebrides coast, Scotland, containing a note stating a ship, believed to be the SS Pacific, had sunk after a collision with an iceberg. [52] [53]

  9. Bon-Bon (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Bon-Bon, who has "an inclination for the bottle", is drinking around midnight on a snowy winter night when he hears a voice. He recognizes it as that of the Devil himself, who then appears in a black suit in the style of the previous century, and which is a bit too small for him.