When wishing to experience a scare,
a chilling read quite sure to raise your hair;
It's to the bookshop you must up and go,
and choose a tale or two by Mr Poe.
This murdermonger quite extraordinaire
wrote horror with a great degree of flair.
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Author Notes
Today's word: murdermonger (n.) a writer of murder stories.
On 20th April, 1841 Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was released, so this seems an appropriate day to pen a small tribute.
My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.
Thanks for reading.
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