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Episode 364 – Once Upon a Midnight (Audio Theatre) Weary

Episode 364 – Once Upon a Midnight (Audio Theatre) Weary

We haven’t scared you since our summer of suspense, so sit back and scream as more sonic terrors slither into your soul!

This episode marks the kickoff of a month of spooky stories, as Halloween looms ever closer.   Tonight, we’re going truly old school with a special selection of tales from the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, wonderfully reimagined for your ears by the folks at Poe Theatre on the Air.  They’ve prepared a set of three tales for you tonight – The Black Cat, Premature Burial, and The Raven – all taking place inside a mysterious asylum.  (WARNING:  These stories contain mentions of animal abuse, as well as tones that may aggravate tinnitus.  Listener discretion is advised.)

The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre is based in Baltimore, a fitting location for horror fans as it is where Poe died in 1849.  He wasn’t a resident of the city; indeed, he left Richmond, Virginia, days before to start an editing job in Philadelphia.  No one knows why he was found in Baltimore, delirious, dying, and wearing someone else’s clothes.  Theories abound:  from cooping (kidnapping someone, giving them a fake identity, then forcing them to vote for a particular candidate) to outright murder by his fiancée’s brothers.

It is a fitting and poetic irony that the man who invented the detective story met an end that we will never be able to solve.

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Be Sure to Check Out:

  • Other Poe Theatre Productions
  • Theories on Poe’s Death
  • C. Auguste Dupin: The World’s First Fictional “Detective”
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On October 10, 2020
In Episodes
Tagged Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, Halloween, horror, mystery, Poe Theatre on the Air, Premature Burial, Raven
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