Celebrate Poe

Apr 02 2025 352 ep. 28 mins 38
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This podcast is a deep dive into the life, times. works. and influences of Edgar Allan Poe - "America's Shakespeare." Mr. Poe comes to life in this weekly podcast!

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Encountering Poe’s Ghost Revisited

Apr 02 2025 18 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 354, Encountering Poe’s Ghost Revisited I looked at the time I have left for podcasts this month, and realized that I had just enough for one more episode - and this will not be a long episode at all. So I would like to revisit the first episode, and update it a little bit. By the way, this first episode was one of the most listen

Loathsome Mass of Detestable Putridity

Mar 31 2025 26 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - and this is episode 353 - Loathsome Mass of Detestable Putridity Hello, my name is George Bartley, and the Ghost of Mr. Poe is here right beside me. I hope you have listened to the previous episode for sections from 5 of Poe’s six hoax stories. But there is one more - a story that is very much a hoax, - not an exploration story or trip to

Poe's Hoaxes, Part One

Mar 31 2025 22 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 352 - Poe’s Hoaxes, Part One Being April Fool’s day, today I want to look at Poe’s six hoax stories - in fact, Edgar Allan Poe approvingly called his time the “epoch of the hoax.” Even though Poe’s motives in writing hoaxes may sometimes seem odd or obscure, his hoaxes live on as a quirky and fascinating part of literary

From Feast of Blood

Mar 29 2025 27 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 351 - From Feast of Blood - This is the final episode of Celebrate Poe - at least for now - devoted to Varney the Vampire. Now, as mentioned in a previous episode, the entire work spans 876 double-columned pages and 232 chapters, totaling nearly 66,000 words. And the author does a rather good job of holding your interest from issue

Be Content to Suffer

Mar 25 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Be Content to Suffer - This is episode 350 of Celebrate Poe - a bit of a milestone for this podcast. And I must admit that when I started Celebrate Poe, I had no idea I would make it this far - and there is still so much of Poe’s life, his works, and the many influences on his writing to delve into - and I would be most honored if you tak

Varner (I mean, Varney) the Vampire

Mar 23 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 349 - Varner (I mean, Varney) the Vampire Hope you have listened to episode 348 about Varney the Vampire but you might be asking yourself, How does Varney's sympathetic portrayal differ from other vampire stories of the time? Well, Varney the Vampire stands out as a pioneering sympathetic portrayal of vampires, differing significant

Feast of Blood

Mar 21 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 348 Feast of Blood Varney the Vampire is an extremely influential work in the vampire genre, first appearing as a serialized gothic horror story between 1845 and 1847. The was well before Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Varney was published as a series of weekly cheap pamphlets known as "penny dreadfuls," targeting a mass-market audience i

The Origins of Vampires

Mar 18 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 347 - The Origins of Vampires - Today I would like to delve into what is believed to be the beginnings of the vampire myth. So this specific episode will NOT be dealing with Dracula or Nosferatu, or any of the relatively recent names that we associate with vampires, and not specifically with Edgar Allan Poe - except in passing - alt

Challenging Male Authority

Mar 16 2025 23 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 345 - Challenging Male Authority Well, I had planned for the previous episode to be the last one where I dealt with Carmilla - but I soon found out that the work was easy to get into, but hard to get out of. So what follows is another - and hopefully the last - episode regarding Carmilla. You see, ”Carmilla" focuses more on psycho

Stirring Sexual Desires

Mar 15 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 345 - Stirring Sexual Desire I was looking at the podcast episodes I have done, and realized that I had written three or more episodes for each subject. But I only did two for Carmilla, and have come to realize that the narrative does deserve more attention. You see, there is no question that Carmilla has lesbian/homoerotic