From the Editor

Included in this issue is an obituary for eminent Poe scholar Dick Thompson, who died in 2019 but whose death was unknown to many of us members of the PSA. Having interviewed him for the Poe Review in 2018 (included in vol. 20, no. 1), I was taken aback to learn that he had died a year later without my knowing it. Our sympathies go to his surviving family; he was much loved and respected by his students and colleagues.This issue features invited articles and notes from members of our editorial board—Stephen Rachman, Jeffrey Savoye, David Cody, Alex Hammond, and Richard Kopley—along with an essay previously accepted on the Poe tarot deck. The articles in the next issue also will come from members of the editorial board and possibly others. I made this decision because this is the penultimate issue that I will edit, and I want to pay special tribute to the work of the Poe scholars on our board.I have a deep affection for our journal, having nurtured it into life from a newsletter to a peer-edited journal in 2000 after four years of editing the PSA Newsletter. As editor, I have thoroughly enjoyed the hands-on experience of being responsible, with the help of a faculty secretary, for all aspects of the journal's creation, from copyediting to layout to mailing. In 2013, the journal became a part of the Penn State University Press. I was hesitant to make the transition from a journal funded by the PSA and my campus to being produced a university press; but this was clearly the right decision. The PSA is no longer responsible for partial funding and instead receives royalties each year from the press. Over the summer, the PSA Executive Committee will be meeting to begin the process of interviewing and choosing a new editor. John Martin will remain Book Review Editor, and the Editorial Board will remain the same until the end of 2024.I'd like to quote a passage from "Landor's Cottage" that reflects some of my thinking about this decision to retire from the editorship and to embrace fully a special place on Moose Island.