\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout the Show\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe lived just blocks from the Merchant’s House, on Amity Street (now W. 3rd Street).The publication of \u201cThe Raven\u201d brought him instant fame and invitations to the city’s most fashionable literary salons. Join\u00a0John Kevin Jones\u00a0(A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House, Whitman in Love) in the Merchant\u2019s House Museum\u2019s 19th century, candlelit double parlor for a hauntingly memorable performance. It will be a bone-chilling evening of irrational revenge, obsession and premeditated murder, dismemberment, and the very, very dark.<\/p>\n
Poe has even more to say this season\u00a0with\u00a0two new tales of terror, \u201cThe Black Cat\u201d and \u201cThe Devil in the Belfry.\u201d The production will alternate these two stories with \u201cThe Cask of Amontillado\u201d and \u201cThe Angel of the Odd\u201d expanding Poe\u2019s dark and macabre world while retaining \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d and \u201cThe Raven\u201d at all performances.<\/p>\n
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