This story was inspired by a submission from listener Matthew Mercier, for our Halloween/Election crowd-sourcing experiment. It’s based on his experience as caretaker of the last home of Edgar Allan Poe, and imagines what Poe’s last living hours may have been like.

CAST

Christian Paluck
Ed Herbstman
Chet Siegel
Louis Kornfeld

MAN IN PURPLE
EDGAR ALLAN POE
CON WOMAN
CON MAN

Produced and directed by Jonathan Mitchell