The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe. Host Peter Graves
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Edgar Allan Poe, America's master of the macabre, is famed for such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven. But the story of his life was more bizarre than any of the tales he told. This episode of Biography sheds light on a man greatly blessed and supremely cursed: blessed with immortal genius and cursed by a life of lost loves and shattered hopes.
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45 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c1996
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Films on Demand
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