October 3, 1849
Rather the Worse for Wear
The mysterious final public appearance of Edgar Allan Poe on October 3, 1849
When Edgar Allan Poe was discovered semi-conscious outside a rowdy Baltimore polling tavern wearing someone else's clothes, he had four days left to live. Was the master of Gothic horror brought down by a personal demon, or caught in the violent machinery of nineteenth-century political fraud?
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