Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and children

POE’S SECRETS

The writer Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his scary stories and poems, but he also loved secret messages. His mystery story “The Gold-Bug,” published in 1843, is about a secret message written in invisible ink on a scrap of parchment.

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