'This grim, ungainly, ghastly, bird': Dickens' pet raven which inspired Edgar Allan Poe's most haunting poem goes on display
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"Each line of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven still has the power to send a chill down the spine.
Now Charles Dickens' pet raven called Grip - the little known, real-life inspiration behind one of literature's most terrifying poems - has been has been put on display to commemorate the author's 200th birthday.
The bird, which Dickens [had] a taxidermist preserve, has been given pride of place in a new exhibition in Philadelphia's public library...."
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