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Eurovision Chat Over Coffee: Chris Semtner, Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Eurovision Chat Over Coffee: Chris Semtner, Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Austria’s entry to the Eurovision Song Contest is proving to be a community favourite. It takes in the difficulties of making a living on streaming plays, the sexism in the music industry, the need for a celebrity ‘hook’ to get any sort of recognition in the arts… and it’s also a bop. But what of the Edgar of the title? Yes, it results in a catchy lyric, but Poe’s life is closer to creatives in…

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Halloween Countdown 2019, Day 7

“Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence, whether much that is glorious, whether all that is profound, does not spring from disease of thought, from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”

- Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleanora” 

(”Edgar Allan Poe The Raven B1″ by Legrande62.)

On this day in 1849 --170 years ago -- Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty under mysterious circumstances.

For more information, read “Mysterious for Evermore” by Matthew Pearl, an article on Poe’s death from The Telegraph. Pearl is the author of a fascinating novel about the subject, The Poe Shadow.

(”Edgar Allan Poe” by Bo Alvarsson.)

The following are some of my favorite links about Edgar Allan Poe:

PoeStories.com: An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The Poe Museum of Richmond

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Hocus Pocus Comics is Poe-centric to the max, and I invite you to visit the site! In addition, check out this beautiful time-lapse video of David Hartman drawing an exclusive Kickstarter cover for The Imaginary Voyages of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Raven Lunatics is a web show in which the awesome Dwight L. MacPherson of Hocus Pocus Comics and the terrific Chris Semtner of the Poe Museum discuss Edgar Allan Poe, his work, and his impact on popular culture with special guests. You can see all of the YouTube episodes to date here and subscribe.

The Caedmon recordings -- that’s 5 hours of Edgar Allan Poe stories read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone -- are now available on Spotify (download the software here). (Thanks, Jessica!)

(Re)Watching this little short seems a perfect way to celebrate today: Tim Burton’s Vincent featuring Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”

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Be sure to tune in this Friday August 3rd at 8pm et to the Para-X Radio Network, Spirited History is back on air with fresh new shows! To kick off our return to the mic, we are very excited to have as our guest, Chris Semtner, who is the Curator of the Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia. We will be exploring Spiritualism and its connection and influence on Edgar Allan Poe personal life and his written works. www.para-x.com

A big shout out and Thank You to Chris Semtner for joining us as we Journey back into Spirited History!

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Interview with Chris Semtner

Visual artist and Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Chris Semtner has curated and designed critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country. Semtner has also written several books and chapters on topics including Poe, visual art, and crime fiction in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Crime Writers’ Chronicle, and other publications. He has been interviewed for BBC4, PBS, and NPR and featured in publications including the New York Times and Forbes.com.

Check out this episode!

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Nobody can really distillate my phobias quite like Chris Semtner. And I mean that in the best way. (at Visual Art Studio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3N1OjHltU6/?igshid=17frnq9sg9of0

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Halloween Countdown 2018, Day 7

On this day in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty under mysterious circumstances.

For more information, read “Mysterious for Evermore” by Matthew Pearl, an article on Poe’s death from The Telegraph. Pearl is the author of a fascinating novel about the subject, The Poe Shadow.

(Art by LAReal.)

The following are some of my favorite links about Edgar Allan Poe:

PoeStories.com: An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The Poe Museum of Richmond

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Hocus Pocus Comics is Poe-centric, and you’re invited to visit the site. In addition, check out this beautiful time-lapse video of David Hartman drawing the exclusive Kickstarter cover for The Imaginary Voyages of Edgar Allan Poe.

One of the best Poe-related happenings this year was the launch of The Raven Lunatics, a web show in which the awesome Dwight L. MacPherson of Hocus Pocus Comics and the terrific Chris Semtner of the Poe Museum discuss Edgar Allan Poe, his work, and his impact on popular culture with special guests. You can see all of the YouTube episodes to date here and subscribe.

Here is The Raven Lunatics’ episode with The Poe Shadow author Matthew Pearl.