Edgar Allan Poe: The Mysterious Death No One Ever Solved

Edgar Allan Poe: The Mysterious Death No One Ever Solved

Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 under circumstances no one has ever fully explained — found delirious in someone else’s clothes, four days before his death, with no autopsy and a missing death certificate.

This is the full story of his life: an orphaned childhood, a foster father who never forgave him, a marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, the poem that made him famous overnight while he stayed broke, the wife he watched die of the same disease that killed his mother, and the mystery that followed him even after death — including a literary rival who tried to destroy his reputation forever.

00:00 The Mystery Begins
00:39 A Childhood Built on Loss
03:52 A Writer’s Impossible Career
08:14 Everything Falls Apart
11:09 Death, Slander, and a Strange Legacy

Historical portraits and photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, VA), the University of Virginia Library, Encyclopedia Virginia, and Brown University’s John Hay Library.

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