- shakespeare put a curse on his own tomb to dissuade gravediggers.
- balzac preferred not to ejaculate out of fear it would sap his creative energy.
- edgar allan poe was afraid of the dark and was educated in a cemetery. he learned math by adding and subtracting the dates on gravestones.
- charles dickens and lewis carroll reportedly had ocd.
- the bronte sisters lived in a house surrounded on three sides by graveyards.
- henry david thoreau invented raisin bread.
- emily dickinson was so reclusive, she forced doctors to examine her from behind a closed door.
- alice's adventures in wonderland might had been the by product of lewis carroll's chronic migraines, which caused migraine aura perceptions.
- in the book jack the ripper, light-hearted friend, author richard wallace makes the case that lewis carroll was victorian london's notorious murderer jack the ripper.
- louisa may alcott was addicted to opium, which she used to help her sleep during her long battle with the effects of mercury poisoning.
- mark twain once delivered an entire speech on breaking wind to an audience that included queen victoria.
- twain was born when halley's comet was visible and correctly predicted he would die when it returned. twain died the day after the comet came back.
- oscar wilde and ernest hemingway spent much of their childhood wearing girl's clothes at the behest of their mothers.
- sir arthur conan doyle believed fairies were real and that houdini had psychic powers.
- conan doyle was named after king arthur.
- sherlock holmes was originally named sherringford hope.
- w.b. yeats believed his mystical alter ego was a 16th century adventurer named leo africanus, whom yeats 'met' at a seance.
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