As regularly as I can keep the journal, I will - but there is no telling what may happen to a man all alone as I am - I may get sick, or worse … So far well! The cutter had a narrow escape - but why dwell on that, since I am here, all safe? My spirits are beginning to revive already, at the mere thought of being - for once in my life at least - thoroughly alone for, of course, Neptune, large as he is, is not to be taken into consideration as “society”. January 1, 1796: This day - my first on the light-house - I make this entry in my Diary, as agreed on with De Grät. Another possibility is that the story continued on pages that have since been lost to history.

Based on the space he left on the final page, it seems likely that Poe either did not finish the work. One biographer, Kenneth Silverman, believes that Poe began The Lighthouse within six months of his death in October, 1849.

It is almost certainly the last piece of fiction that Edgar Allen Poe wrote. The first thing that stands out to most readers of this work is that it appears to be a fragment. Short story by Edgar Allen Poe Listen to the audio recording of read by Read by Demian Perry, Sound Effects:, Music: UCSB.

The lighthouse keeper short story