Episode 25: True Poe

Works in this episode, in chronological order

• Berenice (1835)
• Politian (1836)
• William Wilson (1839)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
• The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
• The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
• The Premature Burial (1844)
• The Oblong Box (1844)
• Some Words with a Mummy (1845)
• The Cask of Amontillado (1846)

Mentioned

Poe was handsome. Some of the drawings of him are mockery, exaggerated by rivals. Some of the photographs, from which the drawings are taken, were made near the end of his life when he was ill. Exhibit A right here, Poe the looker.

Poe was stationed at Fort Independence in Boston Harbor under the alias “Edgar A. Perry” to avoid questions about his young age, and to dodge gambling debts.

Southern Literary Messenger (archives online)

Columbian Magazine (archives online)

Alexander’s Weekly Messenger at eapoe.org

Ghosts of Virginia, vol 4. by L. B. Taylor (all the volumes in one Kindle edition–the individual vol. are not yet available in ebook format)

Thomas Dunn English, one of Poe’s bitterest rivals

the Spanish Inquisition — General Lasalle, aka Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle

–The Rise of the Inquisition: An Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions by Juan Marcos and Bejarano Gutierrez

Cholera epidemic of 1832

Correct order of Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin detective series:

1. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
2. The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842)
3. The Purloined Letter (1844)

The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower

All books added to the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf. Please feel free to add me as a friend on Goodreads if you would like!

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