We step aside this week from your regularly scheduled program to study the life, works, sorrow, and mystery of one man: Edgar Allan Poe.

Besides the tragedies of life, what caused his constant despair?

How has his alcoholism been misunderstood?

What has been the lasting impact of his work?

Plus, a cat sorrowful unto death, a box of bones beneath a bed, and a hooded figure in black performing an annual ritual . . .

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