![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired Edgar Allen Poe's Mystery of Mary Roget. The press had a field day with all the possible shocking possibilities. Then, she suddenly disappeared, her body recovered in the Hudson off the Jersey side. Lovecraft and some of the adaptations of his stories to graphic novels will show how certain patterns of the " imaginary life " are consolidated, defining it as a literary genre closely linked to the comic format –and, in these particular cases, also to Gothic literature. Mary Rogers was a compellingly beautiful lass employed in a cigar store in New York City in the mid-nineteenth century. This paper will analyse the particular case of Edgar Allan Poe, who is not only interesting in terms of his life and his work, but also as a character himself of invented biographies where he becomes the protagonist of his own short stories or the unexpected hero of new ones. ![]() Following this concept, the comic book has also resorted to the lives of literary authors and historical figures in order to create new fantasies, where fiction and reality mix. In this genre, according to Borges, 'the protagonists are real the facts may be fabulous, and sometimes fantastic'. In the nineteenth century Marcel Schwob coined the term of 'imaginary life', which became a modern literary genre. Three delectable murders, culled from the pages of Victorian papers of the era, are presented in Gearys inimitable style, tongue firmly in cheek Write a. ![]()
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