One Story at a Time Reading Project - The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe

First published in 1844. This is a humorous short story and a satire about the gullibility of the public when reading about incredulous and unbelievable stories in the newspaper. On that same year Poe published at the New York Sun about Monck Mason's trip crossing the Atlantic Ocean in three days aboard a gas balloon which turned out to be untrue and is now known as The Balloon-Hoax.

The Angel of the Odd is about an unnamed narrator who reads about a death in the newspaper where a man accidentally swallowed a needle from a blowpipe. He thinks that it is ridiculous and vows to never believe such odd stories, just then an odd being appears and proclaims to be the Angel of the Odd. The man of course did not believe in such things and attributed it to his drunkenness however a series of very unfortunate and odd events starts to happen to him.

This short story is available to read for free at Gutenberg.org

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