Poe: father of American horror, pioneer of the macabre, and — according to at least one theory — a man who caught rabies from drinking bat blood at a Satanic ritual before his final, chaotic hours in Baltimore. Unfortunately, the official data also suggests 66.6% of poets are child molesters, and Poe is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statistic.
This episode, Satan Is My Superhero shines its black light on one of gothic literature's most influential weirdos. We cover the Faustian bargains, the occult obsessions, the time Satan literally refused someone's soul because Hell was already well-stocked, and the genuinely unhinged theories about how Poe died. We also cover the cousin. We cover the cousin extensively.
Tightly scripted. Fully produced. Deeply uncomfortable about poets as a category.
Look, if you've made it this far, you already know you're one of us — the kind of person who started this episode thinking "interesting literary history" and ended it reconsidering the entire genre of poetry.
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CONTINUE THE JOURNEY - If this episode has left you with complicated feelings about canonical Western literature, good news — we've been here before. John Milton gets the Satan Is My Superhero treatment in episode 5 on Paradise Lost— the one that started the whole "Satan as misunderstood icon" conversation in English literature. And unlike Poe, Milton (as far as we know) kept his hands to himself. Which makes him officially the best poet in the SIMS data set, which frankly isn't saying much.
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