Baltimore, Oct 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Better late than never, would describe the celebrated author Edgar Allan Poe’s funeral perfectly. After being dead for more than a century, he will now get a proper funeral.

He was found delirious and lonely and barely able to comprehend his surroundings outside a Traven more than a century ago. He was taken to the Baltimore hospital where he died after 4 days, in 1849. He was buried in haste after his death.

In honor of his 200th birthday, his numerous fans will pay their last respects and also give him a proper funeral. Thousands of his fans are expected to attend this historic occasion.

The UK Telegraph reports on the funeral this weekend, “At 11.30am on Sunday, a life-size recreation of his body will be carried in a horse-drawn carriage from his Baltimore home in Amity Street, to the Westminster Burying Ground where not one, but two full-length ceremonies will be held in front of up to 700 admirers.

The Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting an exhibit marking the 200th birthday of gothic literature giant Edgar Allan Poe, reports UPI.

In January of this year, Reuters reported the father of the “mystery novel,” and one of America’s most extraordinary poets and fiction writers was immortalized on postage when the U.S. Postal Service celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe.

“It is ironic that a man who faced loneliness, poverty and despair throughout much of his life, should be so richly loved by so many so long after his death,” said U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors member Katherine C. Tobin in dedicating the stamp. “He invented the detective story and elevated literary criticism to an art form. Poetry, however, was his self-declared passion. His works are found, or referenced in seemingly every form of art — in plays, movies, musicals, operas, symphonies, recordings, comics, cartoons, television, sculpture, paintings and more.