He Turned Up in a Gutter: The Strange Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe
From American Rewind · 01:00
Show by james brown
He opens with the stark fact that Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious in a gutter outside a Baltimore polling place and later died in 1849 under mysterious circumstances. The narrator walks listeners through Poe’s final days — drifting in and out of consciousness, calling for someone named Reynolds, and whispering “Lord help my poor soul” as his last words.Takeaways:They retell how Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter on a rainy election day, soaked and confused.He couldn't explain how he reached Maryland, adding an eerie unanswered layer to Poe's final chapter, and historians still puzzle over it.They note how he cried out repeatedly for someone named Reynolds before whispering his final plea, "Lord help my poor soul.He was rushed to Washington College Hospital but remained incoherent, and on October 7, 1849 he died pitilessly, leaving a baffling end to his gothic legacy.
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