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Book closes on Poe Toaster tradition

Associated Press

  January 20, 2012

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 yesterday 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.

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