Poe Tour This Weekend January 18, 2013 Join me this Saturday January 19th to celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s 204th “birthday” with a walking tour of Greenwich Village. I’m running two tours, one at 2:30pm and one at 7:30pm. Tours are 90 minutes long, and you can buy tickets here. Poe belongs to New York. He was a literatus, not a loner, and […]
Poe in New York City, 1837 – 1838 (Pt. 2) January 10, 2013 This is the second half of a guest post written by Lisa Lideks, who runs the blog The World of Edgar Allan Poe. An authority on Poe who is devoted to separating truth and fiction, Ms. Lideks gives us the lowdown on some of his lesser-known years in Gotham. Last we heard, he was living […]
Poe In New York City, 1837 – 1838 (Pt. 1) January 9, 2013 The following is the first half of a guest post written by Lisa Lideks, who runs the blog The World of Edgar Allan Poe. An authority on Poe who is devoted to separating truth and fiction, Ms. Lideks gives us the lowdown on some of his lesser-known years in Gotham. Check back tomorrow for the […]
Mythbusting Poe: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction January 6, 2013 When it comes to Poe, the truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. Or what we know of the truth, that is. In my last post I noted the general facts of his life – a brief one, marked by pain, death, misery, poverty, and the repeated loss of every woman he ever loved – as […]
Edgar Allan Poe: Myths and Facts January 4, 2013 I would be remiss if we let January slip by without celebrating him. His birthday, January 19th, is celebrated by horror fans everyone, including the mysterious “Poe toaster,” who used to show up every year on his birthday and toast to him beside his grave. Unfortunately, he has not been seen in recent years. Perhaps […]
Haunted Hell’s Kitchen December 30, 2012 New Years’ Eve is almost upon us, so what better time to tell a few ghostly yarns involving bars? There are many reportedly haunted bars and taverns in New York City, and many of their stories are well-known by now: The White Horse Tavern, The Bridge Cafe, McSorley’s, and the Ear Inn all have […]
A Christmas Carol December 17, 2012 Today in 1843, A CHRISTMAS CAROL was first published in London by Chapman and Hall. The novella was greeted with fairly instant acclaim, and has never been out of print. Naturally, it’s one of my favorite Christmas ghost stories, and has even been credited with reviving the English interest in the tradition of telling ghost […]
Ghost Stories Live December 12, 2012 ‘Tis the season to be WARY…! Especially on Thursday Dec. 20th when we present our special holiday spooktacular! Featuring TRADITIONAL ghost story fare from the master of the genre: M. R. James. On this fabulous, festive, and fearsome one-night-only event, we’ll be screening (along with some ghostly cartoons) a digest-version of the black & white […]
Boroughs of the Dead November 14, 2012 “Like the best of the pulps, the narratives are creepy, darkly comical and elegantly composed, with lovingly detailed descriptions of place and an ample whiff of lurid decay.” – FANGORIA Imbued with the chilling undertone that inhabits all of New York’s five boroughs, BOROUGHS OF THE DEAD is an entertaining, varied and infectious take […]