By Associated Press,
"Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it
appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious
figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall occur nevermore.
Poe
House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome said early Thursday that die-hard
fans waited hours past when the tribute bearer normally arrives. But the
“Poe Toaster” was a no-show for a third year in a row, leaving another
unanswered question in a mystery worthy of the writer’s legacy. Poe fans
had said they would hold one last vigil this year before calling an end
to the tradition....
It is thought that the tributes of an anonymous man wearing black
clothes with a white scarf and a wide-brimmed hat, who leaves three
roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe’s original grave on the
writer’s birthday, date to at least the 1940s."
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