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Awright, before anyone get’s too freaked-out: that is not the real Edgar Allan Poe in a pine box! But it is an incredibly life (or death)-like simulation created by Baltimore-based effects wiz Eric Supensky, commissioned by Jeff Jerome (looking on “Edgar”‘s body) of the Poe House and Museum.

A hundred and sixty years after Poe’s ignoble death and hasty funeral, the father of modern horror is about to get the funeral that he’s always deserved. The Poe House has held public viewings of “Poe” this week, which will culminate in a true period-style funeral this coming Sunday…

Poe’s cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced his death publicly. Fewer than 10 people attended the hasty funeral for one of the 19th century’s greatest writers. And the injustices piled on. Poe’s tombstone was destroyed before it could be installed, when a train derailed and crashed into a stonecutter’s yard. Rufus Griswold, a Poe

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If anyone still harbored doubts about Johnny Robertson – leader of the local cult calling itself the “Church of Christ” – those were erased during last night’s broadcast of What Does the Bible Say? on WGSR Star 47.1 from Reidsville.

During the program, which included pre-recorded footage of Robertson speaking yesterday at his “Martinsville Church of Christ”, Robertson exclaimed that to have the wrong funeral is grounds enough to displease God! Robertson told his followers to make sure that no instrumental music be played during their last rites.

Here’s the transcript of what Johnny Robertson said at “Martinsville Church of Christ” on August 16, 2009 (with bold-faced text indicating spoken emphasis)…

“If you haven’t determined how your funeral is going to go, you need to! Because you have family members who do not agree with what I just quoted from the Bible in Ephesians 5:19 about speaking to yourselves in

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