Writer after writer added macabre and colorful details, and the story migrated into poems, plays and popular novels even as historians began to pick it apart.

In the latter poem the names of the characters, the dream visions and the macabre physical details are influenced by the novels of premiere Gothicist Ann Radcliffe.

Ms. Pearson said that the company did not know about the macabre details of the case, and that Dr. Lothringer had come highly recommended by his peers in psychiatry.

He would love to hear people tell him all the macabre details of the monstrous death Lathea had suffered.

Further evidence of the era's ideal of innocent childhood also emerged from literature: the Grimm fairy tales were translated into English in 1823 and lost their more macabre details in the process.

Roosevelt was plainly delighted by this macabre detail.

The site has also posted a list of their Top Ten highest-selling Poe editions, along with appropriately macabre details of the writer's life:

It was the sort of macabre detail that Johnson compiled and transformed in his art.

(Mr. Wright adds the macabre detail that many of these enforcers of Islam's strict moral codes are ex-convicts who memorized the Koran in prison.)

He learned the macabre details from his older sister, Sabrina Yaw, who was 8 years old at the time of the murder and the only eyewitness.