Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Book Details
Author(s)Walsh, John Evangelist
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan Trade
ISBN / ASIN0312227329
ISBN-139780312227326
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
While traveling alone from Richmond, Virginia, to New York City, Poe disappeared for nearly a week. When seen again he was terribly drunk and nearly dead in Baltimore. In the hospital, four days later, after periods of raving delirium, he died. The immediate cause of death given was "congestion of the brain." At first no one seriously doubted that Poe died from drunken debauchery. However, Poe adherents suggested many theories of a physical nature about precipitating causes but no one has seroiusly probed the mystery of the missing week . . . until now.

