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9780312227326

Midnight Dreary The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312227326

  • ISBN10:

    0312227329

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-05
  • Publisher: Griffin

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Summary

While traveling alone from Richmond, Virginia, to New York City, Poe disappeared for nearly a week. When seen again he was terribly drunk and nearly dead in Baltimore. In the hospital, four days later, after periods of raving delirium, he died. The immediate cause of death given was "congestion of the brain." At first no one seriously doubted that Poe died from drunken debauchery. However, Poe adherents suggested many theories of a physical nature about precipitating causes but no one has seroiusly probed the mystery of the missing week . . . until now.

Author Biography

John Evangelist Walsh is the author of more than a dozen books of history and biography, includingDarkling I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Case Reopened vii
Enter Poe
1(4)
Enter the Widow
5(16)
``We Regret to Learn...''
21(15)
Witness Time
36(16)
Five Lost Days
52(16)
The Sartain Interval
68(18)
What Mrs. Smith Knew
86(20)
Suddenly a Tapping
106(18)
Epilogue: Exit the Widow 124(7)
Appendix: The Letters of Elmira Shelton 131(6)
Notes and Sources 137(50)
Acknowledgments 187(2)
Selected Bibliography 189(6)
Index 195

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