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In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke . He'd read the volume... read more
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IN 1951, ROBERT BLOCH, NOT YET THE AUTHOR OF Psycho, published a short story in the pulp magazine Famous Fantastic Mysteries called 'The Man Who Collected Poe'.
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- John Baxter (Author)
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