This Week

Mark D Headshot Square

2. Mark Twain Scholar/Look-Alike

3. Writer of Kolchak Fiction

      Mark Dawidziak - The Untold Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

The Untold Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was the original Gloomy Gus right?  Writing horror stories alone, in a dilapidated mansion, with only the company of a red-eyed raven to keep him sane.  Most people probably believe his life was actually in black and white.  Turns out this is NOT the case!  He played flutes at parties, solved ciphers and puzzles for a magazine, was a ladies man, and even challenged a man to a duel.  I love these quirky personality features and luckily Mark Dawidziak has chronicled him in his latest book “Mysteries of Mysteries:  The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe”.  Mark and I  will do our best to dispel the caricature of Poe as the patron saint of the goths and show his a more well-rounded personality.

 

Noah Charney

Rachel Levin

Darrel Perkins

Christina Ward