Nearly two centuries after horror writer Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore, his stories continue to haunt readers with the question “what if?”
Alex Zavistovich, founder and artistic director of The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre, says Poe’s carefully crafted terror was ahead of its time.
“There were other horror authors that predated him, but none of them really touched the stuff that makes you want to check under the bed at night: the metaphysical, sort of sinister, beyond-this-world kind of things that are sort of the nightmares in your mind as well as the things you’re afraid of in society,” Zavistovich said.
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