Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus sit down with author and fine artist Chris Semtner to explore the lesser-known side of Edgar Allan Poe. Best remembered as the dark, brooding voice behind “The Raven,” Poe was far more than a master of the macabre. This episode reveals a witty, charming, and surprisingly scientific thinker whose personality—and ideas—challenge everything you thought you knew about him.
 
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EPISODE LINKS:
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Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond - https://shop.poemuseum.org/Haunting-Poe-p458518272
Edgar Allan Poe Museum - https://poemuseum.org
Edgar and Tib - https://www.instagram.com/poemuseumcats/
Hop-Frog - https://poestories.com/read/hop-frog
The Cask of Amontillado - https://poestories.com/read/amontillado
The Tell-Tale Heart - https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart
Three Sundays in a Week - https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/sundyb.htm
Godey’s Lady’s Magazine - https://web.colby.edu/bookhistory2020/2018/03/05/origins-of-godeys-ladys-magazine/
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow
C. Auguste Dupin - https://www.britannica.com/topic/C-Auguste-Dupin
Mesmerism - https://dictionary.apa.org/mesmerism
Andrew Jackson Davis - https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=81671
Edgar Cayce - https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/edgar-cayce-ordinary-man-extraordinary-messenger
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - https://poestories.com/read/facts
Mesmer and Swedenborg - https://archive.org/details/mesmerswedenborg00bush
Tamerlane - https://poemuseum.org/tamerlane/
Al Aaraaf - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Al_Aaraaf,_Tamerlane_and_Minor_Poems/Al_Aaraaf
Eureka: A Prose Poem - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32037
Horace Walpole - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Walpole
Ann Radcliffe - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ann-Radcliffe-English-author
Ligeia - https://poestories.com/read/ligeia
Berenice - https://poestories.com/read/berenice
Morella - https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/mrllah.htm
Eleonora - https://poestories.com/read/eleonora
The Colloquy of Monos and Una - https://poemuseum.org/the-colloquy-of-monos-and-una/
Eulalie - https://poemuseum.org/eulalie/
Portrait of Virginia Poe - https://www.eapoe.org/papers/misc1921/deasf76a.htm
John Neal - https://www.eapoe.org/pstudies/ps1970/p1974202.htm
N.P. Willis - https://whitmanarchive.org/item/encyclopedia_entry110
The Assignation - https://poemuseum.org/the-assignation/
Sarah J. Hale - https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sarah-hale
The Bells - https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom1p101.htm
The Fox Sisters - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/
Horace Greeley - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Greeley
Rufus Griswald - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rufus-Wilmot-Griswold
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle
Sarah Helen Whitman - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Helen-Power-Whitman
Harry Houdini - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Houdini


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