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Literature Talk

Profs & Pints DC: The Macabre Poe

October 18 at 5:30pm

At Penn Social

Northwest Washington, Washington

Speaker is a past Poe Studies Association president
Covers the dark life behind the dark fiction
Venue has arcade games and a big bar

Spend an evening with literature's master of the macabre. A Poe scholar unpacks the gruesome tales, troubled life, and lurid imagination that invented modern horror, all over drinks at Penn Social.

What are you into?

  • Literary lecture
  • Gothic horror
  • Bar talk
  • Nerdy night out
  • Penn Social
  • Northwest Washington
  • Washington

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