Edward G Pettit

Abigail Tucker has a piece on the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe at the Smithsonian Magazine website and the Poe War is prominently featured. I like the wording of the last paragraph:

After the last Great Poe Debate, the crowd voted Philadelphia the rightful heir to Poe’s remains; there will likely be a rematch in Boston this December. Yet wherever we decide Poe’s body belongs, we probably won’t let him rest. He’s been buried for more than a century and a half, but, like the victim in the “Tell-Tale Heart,” doesn’t seem quite dead.

Rightful heir has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?