I am huge fan of Poe, I mean are you shocked? Anyway, Eddie is finally going to get a decent proper burial. Warm and fuzzy folk’s feelings, warm and fuzzy. I’m completely kidding. Seriously, if you are in the Baltimore area check it out.

Apparently, when Poe died he was the victim of some really unfortunate events. One hundred sixty years ago, the beleaguered, impoverished Poe was found, delirious and in distress outside a Baltimore tavern. He was never coherent enough to explain what had befallen him since leaving Richmond, Va., a week earlier. He spent four days in a hospital before he died at age 40.

Poe’s cousin, Neilson Poe, never announced his death publicly. Fewer than 10 people attended the hasty funeral for one of the 19th century’s greatest writers. And the injustices piled on. Poe’s tombstone was destroyed before it could be installed, when a train derailed and crashed into a stonecutter’s yard. Rufus Griswold, a Poe enemy, published a libelous obituary that damaged Poe’s reputation for decades.

But this coming Sunday Baltimore’s Poe House and Museum wants to make it right.
Poe’s funeral will get an elaborate do-over, with two services expected to draw about 350 people each — the most a former church next to his grave can hold. Actors portraying Poe’s contemporaries and other long-dead writers and artists will pay their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe.
“We are following the proper etiquette for funerals. We want to make it as realistic as possible,” said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum.

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And to make the event even more creepy realistic there will be a body.
“When they dug up Poe’s body in 1875 to move it, it was mostly skeletal remains,” Jerome said. “I’ve seen remains of people who’ve been in the ground since that time period, and there’s hardly anything left.”
Instead, Jerome commissioned local special-effects artist Eric Supensky to create an eerily lifelike — or deathlike — mock-up of Poe’s corpse.

“I got chills,” Jerome said Monday upon seeing the body for the first time. “This is going to freak people out.”
And to make the event even better, Gomez Adams will be there.
The body will lie in state for 12 hours Wednesday at the Poe House, a tiny rowhome in a gritty section of west Baltimore. Visitors are invited to pay their respects.

For more information visit, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum: http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us/government/historic/poehouse.php.
Source: AP

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