Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 7

[eldritchhobbit]

“Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence, whether much that is glorious, whether all that is profound, does not spring from disease of thought, from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

- Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleanora”

(”Edgar Allan Poe The Raven B1″ by Legrande62.)

On this day in 1849 –170 years ago – Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty under mysterious circumstances.

For more information, read “Mysterious for Evermore” by Matthew Pearl, an article on Poe’s death from The Telegraph. Pearl is the author of a fascinating novel about the subject, The Poe Shadow.

(”Edgar Allan Poe” by Bo Alvarsson.)

The following are some of my favorite links about Edgar Allan Poe:

* PoeStories.com: An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
* The Poe Museum of Richmond
* The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
* Hocus Pocus Comics is Poe-centric to the max, and I invite you to visit the site! In addition, check out this beautiful time-lapse video of David Hartman drawing an exclusive Kickstarter cover for The Imaginary Voyages of Edgar Allan Poe.
* The Raven Lunatics is a web show in which the awesome Dwight L. MacPherson of Hocus Pocus Comics and the terrific Chris Semtner of the Poe Museum discuss Edgar Allan Poe, his work, and his impact on popular culture with special guests. You can see all of the YouTube episodes to date here and subscribe.
*The Caedmon recordings – that’s 5 hours of Edgar Allan Poe stories read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone – are now available on Spotify (download the software here). (Thanks, Jessica!)

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(Re)Watching this little short seems a perfect way to celebrate today: Tim Burton’s Vincent featuring Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

"Tim Burton's Vincent featuring Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven (720p HD)" (Watch on YouTube)