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An essay by this author lists plucking the sorcerer’s flower and veiling one’s head like Judaea Capta on Roman coins as two tests for the title specter. Another essay by this author discusses exploring a city submerged by an earthquake with a recurring “Dark Interpreter.” Blackwood’s Magazine first published an essay by this author that opens by describing a ritual in which a father lifts a newborn so it can look “as king of all this world.” This author of “The Apparition of the Brocken” and “Savannah-La-Mar” named Mater Lachrymarum as the eldest among three goddesses in “Levana and (10[1])Our Ladies of Sorrow.” (10[1])A Dario Argento film is titled for this author’s collection Suspiria (10[1])de Profundis. (10[3]-5[2])The London Magazine (10[2])anonymously published (10[1])this author’s book about his laudanum addiction. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[4])name this author of Confessions (10[3])of an English (10[2])Opium-Eater. (10[2])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Thomas de Quincey [or Thomas Penson Quincey]
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