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    Poe fans plan last vigil for mystery visitor

    BALTIMORE (AP) — Is the "Poe Toaster" nevermore?

    Edgar Allan Poe fans are planning one last vigil to watch for the mysterious person who for decades visited the gothic writer's grave on the anniversary of his birth.

    The rose and cognac tributes of an anonymous man in black are thought to date to at least the 1940s. Notes left with the tributes indicate that the tradition passed to a new generation in the 1990s. But the visitor, dubbed the "Poe Toaster," hasn't appeared since 2009.

    Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome says he'll wait one last time overnight Wednesday before calling an end to the tradition. He'll host a reading of Poe tributes Thursday, an event that may become a new tradition to mark the macabre writer's birthday.

     

    28 comments

    • Kade6767  •  Fort Lauderdale, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      There's a reason it was a mystery. Some things are better left mysteries.
      • paradox_62 4 mths ago
        I'm sure Mr. Poe would agree with you.
    • andyg77  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      Never more?
    • Lib and Proud  •  4 mths ago
      If he does show up, will they stick a camera in his face? Not much of an incentive.
      • P 4 mths ago
        I don't think anyone has ever tried that, mostly out of respect.
    • Faeden1  •  Boston, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      It was a nice tradition that got screwed up by all the idiots who just had to find out his identity. If it has ended they have no one to blame but themselves.
    • lady-like  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      Poe, one of my favorites.
    • Straus D  •  Fayetteville, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Quote the Raven, Never More....Maybe the visitor has died, and did not ask someone to carrry on the tradition. Perhaps the last in a line of relatives, have died, and the tradition was not passed on to someone else to continue.
    • outsiderfan  •  Fayetteville, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Maybe he - or she - will return once the crowds waiting in the shadows to catch a glimps of him - her thins out.
    • GeorgeIII  •  4 mths ago
      Poe, will never really die....I will drink a brandy for him. RIP
    • love it or leave it!  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      all good things must come to an end, never more will this one arise. Time for a new tradition! The poe toaster is likely gone, but will live in our hearts, forever more!
    • MikeB  •  4 mths ago
      Sorry to let everyone down. I've been busy.
    • glenn  •  Houston, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      The original scary sumbit*h!
    • Just a normal woman  •  Muskegon, Michigan  •  4 mths ago
      Fun!
    • Clinton  •  Emporia, Kansas  •  4 mths ago
      its a tradion that should live on, im sure sum will keep the tradion alive, by doing it themselves
    • Hooper  •  4 mths ago
      Must have been the last toaster made in the USA
    • CJF  •  Kenton, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      good grief! these jokes are getting old! enough with the presidential jokes already! next?
    • 4gotten  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  4 mths ago
      I wish this interesting tradition would go on. Life is fun with a little mystery.
    • Mike  •  4 mths ago
      Quit your Raven.
    • AverageWhiteAmericanSlob  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      Maybe he died of The Gold Bug.
    • Rooster  •  Toledo, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      Perhaps the Toaster was replaced by a micro-wave?
    • Kevin  •  Brea, California  •  4 mths ago
      I'll be there next year if he doesn't show up this year.
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