Find the grave of Annabel Lee and you find the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe!

 

In this episode, a hand-drawn map pulls us through a locked iron gate into Charleston's most overgrown churchyard, where legends gather like mist and names disappear into leaves. A lady in white wanders the paths. Sixty-four people have collapsed before this very gate.

 

We follow the trail of Annabel Lee—the girl Poe loved, or invented, or summoned—and uncover the stranger story beneath the legend: a visiting scholar who survived war and exile, stood before Juliet's Tomb in Verona, and quietly planted a grave that may never have existed.

 

The map points toward a burial—but the real treasure may be hidden elsewhere. What if the grave was a lie but the lie was true?

 

Sources:

 

The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton

Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by  Christopher Byrd Downey

 

A History Lover's Guide to Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey

 

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys

Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2

 

Haunted Charleston by Sarah Pitzer

 

Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

Source for Alexander Lenard:

Primary Sources by Alexander Lenard

 

Die Kuh auf dem Bast (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1963)

The Valley of the Latin Bear (New York, 1965) - English translation

Am Ende der Via Condotti: Römische Jahre (München: DTV Verlag, 2017) - translated by Ernö Zeltner

Stories of Rome (Budapest: Corvina, 2013) - translated by Mark Baczoni

O Vale Do Fim Do Mundo (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2013) - translated by Paulo Schiller

Die römische Küche (München, 1963)

Sieben Tage Babylonisch (Stuttgart, 1964)

A római konyha (1986)

Winnie Ille Pu (Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh)

Völgy a világ végén s más történetek (Budapest: Magvető, 1973)

 

Secondary Sources - Books and Academic Articles

 

Siklós, Péter. "Von Budapest bis zum Tal am Ende der Welt: Sándor Lénárds romanhafter Lebensweg" (online)

Siklós, Péter. "The Klára Szerb – Alexander Lenard Correspondence." The Hungarian Quarterly 189 (2008): 42-61

Sachs, Lynne. "Alexander Lenard: A Life in Letters." The Hungarian Quarterly 199 (Autumn 2010): 93-104

Lénárt-Cheng, Helga. "A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard's Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages." Hungarian Cultural Studies 7 (January 2015)

Vajdovics, Zsuzsanna. "Gli anni romani di Sándor Lénárd." Annuario: Studi e Documenti Italo-Ungheresi (Roma-Szeged, 2005)

Vajdovics, Zsuzsanna. "Alexander Lenard: Portrait d'un traducteur émigrant." Atelier de Traduction 9 (2008): 185-191

Rapcsányi, László & Szerb, Klára. "Who Was Alexander Lenard? An Interview with Klára Szerb." The Hungarian Quarterly 189 (2008): 26-30

Lenard, Alexander. "A Few Words About Winnie Ille Pu." The Hungarian Quarterly 199 (2010): 87-92

Humblé, Philippe & Sepp, Arvi. "'Die Kriege haben mein Leben bestimmt': Alexander Lenard's Narratives of Brazilian Exile." In Hermann Gätje / Sikander Singh (Eds.), Grenze als Erfahrung und Diskurs (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018)

Badel, Keuly Dariana. "Writing oneself and the other: A biography of Alexander Lenard (1951-1972)." Proceedings of the XXVI National History Symposium – ANPUH (São Paulo, July 2011)

Nascimento, Gabriela Goulart. "Erich Erdstein and the hunt for Nazis: A study on the book 'The Rebirth of the Swastika in Brazil.'" Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, 2021)

Mosimann, João Carlos. Catarinenses: Gênese E História (Florianópolis/SC, 2010)

Kroener, Sebastian (Ed.). Das Hospital auf dem Palmenhof (Norderstedt, 2016)

Ilg, Karl. Pioniere in Brasilien (Innsbruck/Wien/München, 1972)

Lützeler, Paul Michael. "Migration und Exil in Geschichte, Mythos, und Literatur." In Bettina Bannasch / Gerhild Rochus (Eds.), Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur (Berlin/Boston, 2013): 3-25

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism (New York, 1993)

Said, Edward. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (New York, 1994)

Herz-Kestranek, Miguel; Kaiser, Konstantin & Strigl, Daniela (Eds.). In welcher Sprache träumen Sie? Österreichische Lyrik des Exils und des Widerstands (Wien, 2007)

Lomb, Kató. Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe (Berkeley/Kyoto, 2013)

 

Hungarian Periodical Obituaries and Commemorations

 

Egri, Viktor. "A day in the invisible house." In Confession of Quiet Evenings (Bratislava: Madách, 1973): 162-166

Antalné Serb [Mrs. Antal Szerb]. "About Sándor Lénárd." Nagyvilág 1972/8: 1241-43

Kardos, György G. "Man at the end of the world: On the death of Sándor Lénárd." Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature), May 6, 1972: 6

Bélley, Pál. "Tomb at the end of the world." Magyar Hírlap, April 29, 1972: 13

Kardos, Tibor. "Farewell to the doctor of the valley: The memory of Sándor Lénárd." Magyar Nemzet (Hungarian Nation), May 14, 1972: 12 (also in Az emberiség műhelyei, Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1973)

Bodnár, Györgyi. Radio broadcast, Petőfi Rádió "Two to Six," June 21, 1972

 

Newspaper and Magazine Sources (Hungarian)

 

Magyar Napló, 2005 (17. évfolyam, 11. szám)

Kurír, 1990 (1. évfolyam, 124. szám)

Magyarország, 1969 (6. évfolyam, 9. szám)

Élet és Irodalom, 2010 (54. évfolyam, 11. szám)

Siklós, Péter. Budapesttől a világ végi völgyig – Lénárd Sándor regényes életútja

Berta, Gyula. "Egy magyar orvos, aki megtanította latinul Micimackót"

 

Other Sources

 

Lenard, Andrietta. "In Memory of Alexander." O Estado, May 11, 1980 (Florianópolis)

Rosenmann, Peter. "Lénárd Sándor." Web-lapozgató, November 30, 2004

Wittmann, Angelina. "Alexander Lenard – Sándor Lénárd – Chose Dona Emma SC" (blog, June 24, 2022)

Spiró, György & Kallen, Eve Maria. "No politics, no ideology, just human relations." Hungarian Lettre 92 (2014): 4-7

FCC – Fundação Catarinense de Cultura Cultural Heritage Inventory (2006)

AMAVI (Association of Municipalities of Alto Vale do Itajaí) Registry (2006)

FamilySearch genealogical records

Lenard Seminar Group website (mek.oszk.hu)

Scherman, David E. "Roman Holiday for a Bashful Bear Named Winnie" (article on Winnie Ille Pu)

 

Film

 

Sachs, Lynne. The Last Happy Day (experimental documentary film, 2009) - premiered at New York Film Festival