Pleasing Terrors

In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared by scholars, storytellers, and an entire city convinced that something precious was buried in the South Carolina Lowcountry and must be found. Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2 Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles The New York Evening Post The Charleston News and Courier The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton

The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we uncover a clue that may bring us closer to finding the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Sources: The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton Charleston Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City by James Caskey Complex, archetype and symbol in the psychology of C.G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi The Mad Booths of Maryland By Preston Kimmel The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world. Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode: Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore in Baltimore by David F. Gatlin True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones The Ghostly Register by Arthur Meyers The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner

In this episode we continue our search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe and retrace his path through the final, ill-fated months of his life. Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode: Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner

In this episode we embark on a search for the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe, guided by Henry David Thoreau and the mystery of the Hollow Earth. Our quest begins with a visit to a haunted saloon and an apartment building that is hiding a dark past.