I believe, missing the point. Murder is, after all, the highest form of flattery. The poet writes, not from hatred, but from awe as well as from a basic need to keep under control a creative power superior to his own. Much of his fiction deals with this. In "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade", one of the very few of Poe's stories in which a female character plays an active role, Poe wittily disposes of a literary rival by having the legendary storyteller fail in her attempt to beguile the king with yet another tall tale, and has her strangled for her failure, thereby taking over himself her vacant post as chief storyteller to the king. from Telegraph: Edgar Allan Poe, master of horror
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