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BALTIMORE — Fans of gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe planned what might have been a final vigil in Baltimore to watch for a mysterious visitor who has failed to appear for two years after decades of visiting the author’s grave on his birthday.
The rose-and-cognac tributes of an anonymous man in black — dubbed the “Poe Toaster” — are thought to date to at least the 1940s. Notes left with the tributes indicate the tradition passed to a new generation in the 1990s.
But the visitor hasn’t appeared since 2009. Last year’s vigil attracted impostors, including a man who arrived in a limousine.
Poe House and Museum curator Jeff Jerome said he would wait one last time Wednesday night before calling an end to the tradition.
