Why not get your spooky on and support our local Poe House? It’s happening today and tomorrow, so your weekend plans? Managed.

This weekend includes drawings and trivia, dramatic readings, and some truly original works inspired by Poe. A three-year festival favorite coffin-building workshop makes an online debut, plus a POE-vid mask tutorial, and aTell-Tale Heart Interactive mock trial. Art demos, theatrical performances, secret codes, even a special Sunday Brunch with Edgar Allan Poe’s mother (recipes and shopping list are online as well.) See our list of events right here.

Read on for all the details!

Poe Fest Int’l Saturday Program

The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards is streaming LIVE this weekend, October 3 & 4th, commemorating the 171st anniversary of Poe’s Death in Baltimore. Watch for FREE on Facebook & YouTube Live.

Our livestream program for Saturday includes presentations by:
Tim Beasley as Edgar Allan Poe, Master of Ceremonies
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
The Art of Adrianne D.
Half Light Theatre
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Other World Theater
The National Cryptologic Museum
Coffin-Building with The Poverty Ridge Brothers
The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre
The Poe Museum, Richmond
POE-vid Masks with Kurenai Kiba Cosplay
The 2019 Saturday Awards Winners Preview the 2020 SVAs
The Usher Project Anthology
“The Raven Woos the Dove” by Elizabeth Sweeney

This weekend includes drawings and trivia, dramatic readings, and some truly original works inspired by Poe. A three-year festival favorite coffin-building workshop makes an online debut, plus a POE-vid mask tutorial, and aTell-Tale Heart Interactive mock trial. Art demos, theatrical performances, secret codes, even a special Sunday Brunch with Edgar Allan Poe’s mother (recipes and shopping list are online as well.) See our list of events right here. 

Add-on experiences also available, including the Poe in Film & Fashion Virtual Exhibit, NEW this year in addition to Virtual Tours of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, and the Death Weekend Poe Places Virtual Tour of Poe’s Baltimore. And don’t forget festival t-shirts and posters in our Poe House Gift Shop. We look forward to seeing you this weekend!