Please welcome Professor Varen Nethers, famous depressed dead poets historian and author of the bestselling books Unlocking your Poe-tential: A Writer’s Guide, and Mo Poe Fo Yo: When You Just Can’t Get Enough.

So. [Isobel] cleared her throat. What are we doing?We, [Varen] said at last, are doing a project on Poe.Didn’t he marry his cousin or something?The man is a literary god and that’s all you have to say?