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A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- by Edgar Allan Poe
- in Godey’s Lady’s Book, April 1844
A sick man tells of a walk he took in November of 1845 only to find himself in a pitched battle in 1780 Calcutta, but Dr. Templeton, who listens to the story, already knows how it turns out. —Michael Main
Busied in this, I walked on for several hours, during which the mist deepened around me to so great an extent that at length I was reduced to an absolute groping of the way. And now an indescribable uneasiness possessed me—
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Mellonta Tauta
- by Edgar Allan Poe
- in Godey’s Lady’s Book, February 1849
So just how did those letters from the year 2848 make their way back to Poe if not for time travel? —Michael Main
To the Editors of the Lady’s Book:—
I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the “Toughkeepsie Seer,”) of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum—a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except for the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.