Brain Fever

“Brain Fever: The Death of Edgar Allan Poe” written by Peabody Award winning filmmaker, and former NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu and spoken-word poet and Emmy Award winner Bob Holman. Without explanation, American horror writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe stepped off a ship in Baltimore and inexplicably disappeared for several days. Poe was found delirious and disheveled near Gunner's Hall tavern and was taken to the hospital where he was treated for his apparent alcohol intoxication. Poe had no visitors in the hospital and gave no account of how he came to be in his condition before dying on October 7, 1849. Like his macabre tales, Poe’s death remains an unsolved mystery. What if Poe entered a dreamlike state called sleep paralysis, and all of his nightmare came true? And he could do nothing to stop them from manifesting before his immobilized body?