Celebrate Poe

Apr 10 2025 356 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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Calling Me By Your Name

Apr 10 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley, and this is episode 358 - Pre Dracula 2 or Calling Me By Your Name. The title of this episode - Calling Me By Your Name - is a variation on a phrase - Call Me By Your Name - taken from the text of a letter written to Walt Whitman by one of Whitman’s admirers - none other than Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.

Pre Dracula

Apr 09 2025 28 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 357 - Pre Dracula I promise you that after this and the following episode, I will begin a series of episodes about the big one - at least the big one in the field of vampirism - Bram Stoker’s Dracula. You see, before there was the blood-drinking figure in a black cape, there were reanimated corpses (also known as the “undead”)

Poe and Vampires

Apr 07 2025 24 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 355 - Poe and Vampires While Edgar Allan Poe didn't write about traditional vampires, his exploration of vampiric themes places his work within a broader context of vampiric literature, showcasing the versatility of the concept beyond just blood-drinking monsters. And hopefully within the next few minutes, Mr. Poe will make an appea

Why All the Fuss About Dracula?

Apr 05 2025 18 mins  
Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 355 - Why All the Fuss About Dracula Episode 354 should be a relatively short episode - the subject is Stoker’s Dracula - and I want to briefly explore some reasons WHY Dracula is considered a great book. But before I start, I am going to be talking about all kinds of aspects of Dracula - and I know some of them are completely new

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