Edgar Allan Poe's The Earp Curse Myth

"The key." Waverly repeated softly, curled over a book whose pages had long been yellowed. "The key..." She looked up at Wynonna standing over her, triumphant. "I found it- I found you." Pointing Wynonna to the corresponding passages, Waverly let the book fall into her hands.

With Dolls leaning over her shoulder, Wynonna's black-polished fingernail skimmed down the page that had Waverly squealing.

Legend says, that when Sheriff Wyatt Earp perished, he cursed his tormentors and murderers, to long lives of misery and anguish, and promised that one day an heir- an Earp heir- would avenge his ancestry. While only ashes were discovered to confirm the sheriff’s death, several letters of correspondence believed to be Wyatt Earp’s own writings, have only helped the Earp Curse myth persist- writings of a Lead, who brings the Key, where a great battle between good and evil will take place- one that Wyatt Earp says he himself lost,

“This is the journal of a priest who died in Purgatory in the late 1880’s, probably of some now-curable disease, but the journal he kept is all about spirituality, and not like, believing in a higher power. He talks about the spiritual history of Purgatory- being one of what he calls, ‘an old gate to Hell,’ leftover from when God cast out the devil. Father Virgil talks about how this makes Purgatory, and the Ghost River Triangle, susceptible to the musings of the devil, blah blah, I think he means demons, or at least like. Bad vibes.” Shrugging, Waverly took a breath before continuing, “But later on, he talks about having dreams- like, visions, I think- of the Key, who follows the Lead to the Gate, where… well, I’m not sure where the Gate is, or why the Key follows the Lead there, but… I think depending on what happens at the where…” Waverly trailed off, looking between Dolls and