# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Macabre Poe
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 11 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “The Macabre Poe,” a look at Edgar Allan Poe’s most gruesome and horrifying works and what inspired them, with Amy Branam Armiento, professor of English at Frostburg State University, past president of the Poe Studies Association, and editor of two books on the acclaimed American author.

[Doors open at 3. The talk starts at 4:30. The room is open seating.] 

Stephen King has said that he and other horror writers are all “the children of Poe,” a reference to how they’re unable to escape his shadow. Although Edgar Allan Poe penned works in a long list of genres, including fantasy, detective fiction, and poetry, his most prominent legacy is as the master of the macabre. Over the nearly two centuries since Poe lived, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” have haunted millions of readers.

Who, exactly, was Poe? Why does he remain as one of the United States’ best-known writers at home and abroad? Why do his works continue to resonate with readers more than 150 years after they were published?

Come hear such questions tackled by Amy Branam Armiento, a leading Poe scholar who edited More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe, co-edited Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision, and formerly served as president of an international organization that supports the scholarly and informal exchange of information on Poe’s life, works, times, and influence. 

Professor Armiento will look at which people and events influenced Poe’s literary works. His troubled life included the slow deaths of his mother, brother, foster mother, and wife, as well as a problematic relationship with alcohol and a difficult relationship with his foster father. All shaped his relationship with death, horror, and the unknown.

She'll also look at how Poe’s horror tales laid the groundwork for the characters, circumstances, and other conventions of horror stories. We’ll explore how Poe shattered literary conventions of his own time by embracing lurid descriptions of violence, especially violence perpetrated between family members and loved ones. You’ll learn how Poe adapted conventions of the fairy tale to create his memorable, haunting tales, an aspect of his work that is hidden in plain sight.

The presentation will also include examples of evocative artwork used to illustrate editions of Poe's works. Get ready to feel chills down your spine. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID.)
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/baltimore/profs-and-pints-baltimore-the-macabre-poe/200030732386433
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Baltimore
- **state**: MD
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Guilford Hall Brewery 1611 Guilford Ave Baltimore, MD 21202
- **lat**: 39.30849
- **long**: -76.61196
- **full address**: Guilford Hall Brewery 1611 Guilford Ave Baltimore, MD 21202, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202-2822, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Macabre Poe being held?
  - **A:** Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Macabre Poe takes place on Sun, 11 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Sun, 11 Oct, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Guilford Hall Brewery 1611 Guilford Ave Baltimore, MD 21202, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202-2822, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Macabre Poe?
  - **A:** Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Macabre Poe is organized by Profs and Pints.

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