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Charleston Gothic (Part 1‪)‬ Pleasing Terrors

    • Personal Journals

In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828.  This is the first installment of a two-part story.
 
Works Cited:
Buxton, Julian T., The Ghosts of Charleston , Beaufort Books, 2001
Caskey, James, Charleston’s Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City, Manta Ray Books LLC., 2014
Dawidziak, Mark, A Mystery of Mysteries,  St. Martin's Press, 2023
Downey, Christopher Byrd, Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston, History Press, 2020
Downey, Christopher Byrd, A History Lover’s Guide To Charleston, The History Press, 2023
 
Hecker, William F., Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 Louisiana State University Press, 2005
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997
Pitser, Sarah.  Haunted Charleston, Morris Book Publishing, LLC., 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan,  Complete Tales and Poems, Maplewood Books, 2013
Wiles, Julian, Nevermore, The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1998
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997

In this episode, we take a look at Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold Bug," a story about an encrypted map that leads to a buried pirate treasure. We will visit a haunted theater and discuss a play a play about the death of Poe that was first performed there in 1994. The story, the ghosts, and the play are all clues that lead to a hidden treasure that Poe was attempting to find in Charleston in 1828.  This is the first installment of a two-part story.
 
Works Cited:
Buxton, Julian T., The Ghosts of Charleston , Beaufort Books, 2001
Caskey, James, Charleston’s Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City, Manta Ray Books LLC., 2014
Dawidziak, Mark, A Mystery of Mysteries,  St. Martin's Press, 2023
Downey, Christopher Byrd, Edgar Allan Poe’s Charleston, History Press, 2020
Downey, Christopher Byrd, A History Lover’s Guide To Charleston, The History Press, 2023
 
Hecker, William F., Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 Louisiana State University Press, 2005
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997
Pitser, Sarah.  Haunted Charleston, Morris Book Publishing, LLC., 2013
Poe, Edgar Allan,  Complete Tales and Poems, Maplewood Books, 2013
Wiles, Julian, Nevermore, The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1998
Jacobi, Jolande, Complex/Archtype/sSymbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung, Bollingen Foundation Inc., 1959
Main, Roderick Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, 1997

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