It took 160 years, but writer Edgar Allan Poe finally got a funeral Sunday befitting a writer of his stature.

"This is our chance to make amends for what wasn't done in 1849," Jeff Jerome, the curator of Baltimore's Poe House and Museum, told ABC News.

Edgar Allan Poe died Oct. 7, 1849. His funeral was attended by 10 people. (Associated Press)

The man best known for his macabre works such as The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum and the poem, The Raven, got a grand but belated sendoff in the city where he spent much of his time.

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Poe's birth on Jan. 19, 1809 in Boston, Mass.

Hundreds of people had already filed past a pine casket — on view at the museum since Wednesday — with a replica of a dead Poe, who died at age 40, impoverished and alone.

The writer was found delirious outside a Baltimore tavern on Oct. 3, 1849 and in four days, he was dead. His last words were, "Lord help my poor soul."

Poe was buried with only 10 people in attendance. His cousin had neglected to announce his funeral.

To add to the insult, his tombstone was destroyed before it could be put into place: a train derailed and crashed into the stonecutter's yard.

At 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, a horse-drawn cart bearing the casket of the life-like mannequin left the museum for Westminster Hall, the former church near his burial site in Westminster graveyard. That's where two funeral services were held.

Actors portraying Poe's contemporaries and other dead writers and artists — including Walt Whitman, Alfred Hitchcock and Arthur Conan Doyle — paid their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe.

Tickets to the funerals were sold out in advance. Hundreds of Poe fans from around the world attended Sunday's events.

Actor John Astin, best known as Gomez Addams on the ghoulish TV series The Addams Family, served as master of ceremonies.

"It's sort of a way of saying, 'Well, Eddie, your first funeral wasn't a very good one, but we're going to try to make it up to you, because we have so much respect for you,'" Astin, who toured as Poe for years in a one-man show, said earlier this week.