Plays
Killing an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe: Séance at the Merchant's House
About This Event
A séance at the Merchant's House places Edgar Allan Poe—an American writer and critic best known for Gothic short stories and early detective fiction—in a domestic, period setting. Presented by NYC Parks Events, the program frames his preoccupations with death, mystery and the macabre within a ritualized séance that evokes the nineteenth-century domestic milieu of the Merchant's House.
About the Artist
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and of early American literature.