What would Edgar do, if he lived today? Would he huddle, tortured inside, over some poetry at an attic desk? Or would he spend Sunday afternoons in a recliner, watching the Ravens on HDTV -- and screaming as the team lost another close game? I think we know the answer.

If you have any doubts, check out the fanciful man cave created for Poe at this week's Maryland Home, Garden & Living Show at the Timonium Fairgrounds. (There are also versions for Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. and filmmaker John Waters.) Susan Reimer wrote for The Baltimore Sun that interior designer Laura Kimball, of LCK Interiors in Perry Hall, planned a Ravens/"The Raven" theme, complete with the colors of the football team and a four-stanza recasting of the famous poem. "The poem is about a guy trapped watching a makeover show with his girlfriend, Lenore. He is dying for his own man cave where he can watch football."

According to Reimer's story, the poem reads in part: "I need a space, a nest, a cave to watch the Ravens, I implore. This I ask and nothing more!" The television in Kimball's design will be in a gilt picture frame -- it is a mirror when turned off -- and the tone of the room will be dark and somewhat Victorian. The only nod to modern times is an Andy Warhol version of Poe's portrait, replicated in shades of purple.