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10 Celebrated authors and their bizarre death Narratives

8 min readJan 19, 2025

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Writers and their obsession with philosophies of life and death is nothing recent. But often their deaths, unlike their renowned masterpieces, are hissed through literary circles, as an unglamorous or imperfect part of their identity. Anyhow it’s always a fascination for their readers to know about these bizarre death stories which are often considered as a smudged stain on their lasting legacies. Death is scary, heartbreaking, and inevitable but talking about it makes one alive again. Here are 10 most unusual and beyond imagination ends of the most valued and celebrated lives in literature.

1. Mark Twain — He who predicted his own death

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Mark Twain predicted his own death. The more insane this statement sounds the more it makes his death story more strange and intriguing. The much-famed author of “The adventures of the Huckleberry fin” was born on the day Hailey’s comet appeared on earth, a once in 75–76 year event, and a year before his death he quoted jokingly,

“I came in with Hailey’s comet in 1835, It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Hailey’s comet. The almighty has said ‘here are the two unaccountable freaks they come in together, they must go out together’ ”

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