In Popular Culture
The Poe Toaster has appeared as a character in books, occult documentaries, and other media. The 2001 novel, In a Strange City, by Baltimore crime fiction novelist Laura Lippman features dueling Poe Toasters, one killing the other, during a tragically failed "Poe Toasting" at Westminster Hall and Burial Grounds. The Poe Toaster is the subject of numerous non-fiction occult treatises, most notably Curt Rowlett's Labyrinth 13: True Tales of the Occult wherein a chapter is dedicated to the Poe Toaster mystery. More recently, the 2011 audio play The Poe Toaster Not Cometh, by Washington Audio Theater seeks to explain the Poe Toaster mystery by suggesting the Poe Toaster is in fact a contemporary of Poe's, surviving through the centuries via occult means.
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