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This week, we travel to Baltimore’s Gunner’s Hall - the date October 3rd 1849. A disheveled man is found outside the bar “…in great distress and… in need of immediate assistance.” It turns out the man is none other than the horror and detective fiction pioneer Edgar Allan Poe.
Today we discuss Mr Poe’s passing, and the case of the mysterious ‘Poe Toaster.’
Sources this week include:
I wrote this as a blog post to commemorate 50 posts on the blog, way back in 2020 - apologies, I never took down my sources at the time. Though in re-writing I ALSO referred to
Josh Hrala’s ‘The Man Who Defamed Edgar Allan Poe.’
Several articles on The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore’s website.
This National Parks Service piece.
Natasha Geiling’s ‘The Still Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe’
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