In Annabel Lee , Edgar Allen Poe wrote of obsessive, psychotic love: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Does the bard of Baltimore imply necrophilia in Annabel Lee ? That is debatable in Poe’s poem, but not in the true tale that follows. This is a story of perverse love and sex beyond death to “harrow up thy soul.” It mirrors the plot of Annabel Lee , even including a “sepulchre there by the sea.” Events begin in Key West, Florida at a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. The year is 1930… Drop-Dead Gorgeous. Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, called “Helen” by family and friends, came to the sanitorium that year for an examination. She tested positive for tuberculosis and remained a patient there until her death in 1931. Many members of her extended family would ultimately die of tuberculosis. By all accounts, Helen was a remarkably beautiful young woman. Born in Cuba, she was married and had moved with her husband to Miami in 1926. She was 22 … [Read more...] about A True Tale of Necrophilia for Halloween