“Every masquerade ends with a corpse.”

In Part II of our Edgar Allan Poe series, the chandeliers blaze, the clock tolls midnight — and the man behind The Raven unravels for good.

This chapter dives into the masquerade of Poe’s final years:
 the scandals, the drinking, the feuds that earned him the name “The Tomahawk Man,”
and the mysterious death that turned his legend into a ghost story.

🎭 Inside this episode:

• The real plague behind The Masque of the Red Death
• Poe’s self-destruction, obsession, and “Imp of the Perverse”
• His chilling final days and the mystery of the cooping gangs
• The funeral eulogy he never received — until now

He called it fiction.
 But it was his diary.
 And when the clock struck twelve, death didn’t knock… it danced.

🕯️ Listen now — before the music stops.

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