The traditional uniform of the "Poe Toaster" was an all-black outfit with a white scarf and big hat, as can be seen in this Life Magazine photograph from 1990. From 1977 until the end, that crowd ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the third year in a row, the “Poe Toaster” -- who regularly ...

The public didnÆt start gathering outside the gates until after 1990, when Life magazine published the only known photo of the Poe Toaster, a black-and-white image that does nothing to reveal his ...

Even in a city defiantly proud of its quirks, the Poe Toaster stood out. Every year for more than half a century, in the early-morning hours of Jan. 19, a mysterious figure would quietly leave ...

Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer's grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the "Poe Toaster" shall occur nevermore.

BALTIMORE — Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer's grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the "Poe Toaster" shall occur ...

The grave of Edgar Allan Poe with a bottle of cognac and roses left by a mysterious visitor in Baltimore Credit: Photo: AP Each year ... Dubbed the Poe Toaster, his visits have become a local ...

BALTIMORE — Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall ...

The new Poe Toaster, as the office is known, was selected from among candidates who performed tributes anonymously. His identity has been kept from the public. Jeff Jerome, the former curator at ...

BALTIMORE — Maybe the time for nevermore is finally here. For the second year in a row, the mysterious Poe Toaster failed to show up at his namesake’s Baltimore grave Wednesday morning.

BALTIMORE — Edgar Allan Poe fans waited long past a midnight dreary, but it appears annual visits to the writer’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” shall ...