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Pleasing Terrors

Join acclaimed ghost storyteller Mike Brown for a bi-weekly tour through the shadows of history. The Pleasing Terrors Podcast features stories about haunted places, creepy history, and forgotten folklore.
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Now displaying: November, 2025
Nov 19, 2025

 

The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we uncover a clue that may bring us closer to finding the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.




Sources:

 

The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton

 

Charleston Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City by James Caskey

 

Complex, archetype and symbol in the psychology of C.G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi

 

The Mad Booths of Maryland By Preston Kimmel

 

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples

 

Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles



Nov 4, 2025

In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world.

Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode:

 

 

Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III

 

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

 

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore in Baltimore by David F. Gatlin

 

True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones

 

The Ghostly Register by Arthur Meyers

 

The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples

 

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

 

Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner

 

The Poe Shrine: Building the World’s Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner

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