Bonus 22 - Edgar Allan Poe

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Edgar Allan Poe did more than write The Raven and look creepy. He also basically invented the modern detective story. He was America's first "master of suspense" according to Stephen King and many other modern authors. He changed the way American authors wrote scary stories. He changed the way authors in general approached their craft, both creatively and business-wise. And yet he died penniless after a lifetime of financial struggle. And he married his thirteen-year-old first-cousin and died a mysterious death at forty. We dig into the life and struggle of America's first master of the scary story and talk about how much easier it is to make a living as an artist today as it was during Poe's time, and so much more, today on Timesuck. Listen to the end of the show if you need an introduction to Nimrod, Chikatilo, Lucifina, Bojangles, Triple M and more (or just want a refresher). Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 2500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits. And, thank you for supporting the show by doing your Amazon shopping after clicking on my Amazon link at www.timesuckpodcast.com

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0:00.0	We like dark tales here on TimeSuck.
0:02.9	Stories of murderous serial killers and accounts of cold leaders madness,
0:06.7	some of our most popular episodes, and I get it.
0:09.0	Fear's fun when the danger isn't right there in front of you.
0:12.5	It's nice to have that little adrenaline spike.
0:15.0	Well Edgar Allen Poe clearly loved a little fear himself.
0:18.6	He put that primal emotion in so much of his literary work.
0:23.0	Poe didn't kill anybody, or at least according to most historians, go mad,
0:27.0	but he loved to spin a dark tale.
0:29.0	He's considered the founder of the modern psychological horror tale.
0:32.6	Many literary giants of today consider him to be the world's first true suspense author.
0:37.5	He's the inventor of the detective novel.
0:40.6	Considered to be the inventor of the modern short story in America,
0:44.2	as well as the godfather of the spooky mystery.
0:47.2	He wasn't just a mystery slash suspense writer at the author.
0:51.3	Many considered to be today's master of suspense and horror, Stephen King.
0:55.2	He was the first high praise.
0:58.2	And yet he toiled in poverty for pretty much his entire adult life.
1:03.2	He was miserable for most of it.
1:05.6	Poe is so ingrained in us, so deeply encoded into our cultural DNA
1:09.6	that we no longer recognize him, says Lewis Bayard,
1:13.2	who's novel to pale blue eye puts Poe at the center of a mystery during his days as a West point cadet.
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