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…over-sexed. I became paranoid and was a necrophiliac. I died a short 2 years later at age 40. After I died, many lesser poets and critics transformed my image from the man who turned the short story into an art, the creator of the murder mystery/ detective story, a writer of both romantic and haunting poetry, and the inventor of science fiction stories, into a lying, half-mad alcoholic who was gifted with a genius and squandered it.