Find the grave of Annabel Lee and you find the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe!

In this episode, a hand-drawn map pulls us through a locked iron gate into Charleston's most overgrown churchyard, where legends gather like mist and names disappear into leaves. A lady in white wanders the paths. Sixty-four people have collapsed before this very gate.

We follow the trail of Annabel Lee—the girl Poe loved, or invented, or summoned—and uncover the stranger story beneath the legend: a visiting scholar who survived war and exile, stood before Juliet's Tomb in Verona, and quietly planted a grave that may never have existed.

The map points toward a burial—but the real treasure may be hidden elsewhere. What if the grave was a lie but the lie was true?

Sources:

The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton

Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey

A History Lover's Guide to Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South Carolina Lowcountry

Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys

Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2

Haunted Charleston by Sarah Pitzer

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

Source for Alexander Lenard:

Primary Sources by Alexander Lenard

Die Kuh auf dem Bast (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1963)

The Valley of the Latin Bear (New York, 1965) - English translation

Am Ende der Via Condotti: Römische Jahre (München: DTV Verlag, 2017) - translated by Ernö Zeltner

Stories of Rome (Budapest: Corvina, 2013) - translated by Mark Baczoni

O Vale Do Fim Do Mundo (São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2013) - translated by Paulo Schiller

Die römische Küche (München, 1963)

Sieben Tage Babylonisch (Stuttgart, 1964)

A római konyha (1986)

Winnie Ille Pu (Latin translation of Winnie-the-Pooh)

Völgy a világ végén s más történetek (Budapest: Magvető, 1973)

Secondary Sources - Books and Academic Articles

Siklós, Péter. "Von Budapest bis zum Tal am Ende der Welt: Sándor Lénárds romanhafter Lebensweg" (online)

Siklós, Péter. "The Klára Szerb – Alexander Lenard Correspondence." The Hungarian Quarterly 189 (2008): 42-61

Sachs, Lynne. "Alexander Lenard: A Life in Letters." The Hungarian Quarterly 199 (Autumn 2010): 93-104

Lénárt-Cheng, Helga. "A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard's Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages." Hungarian Cultural Studies 7 (January 2015)

Vajdovics, Zsuzsanna. "Gli anni romani di Sándor Lénárd." Annuario: Studi e Documenti Italo-Ungheresi (Roma-Szeged, 2005)

Vajdovics, Zsuzsanna. "Alexander Lenard: Portrait d'un traducteur émigrant." Atelier de Traduction 9 (2008): 185-191

Rapcsányi, László & Szerb, Klára. "Who Was Alexander Lenard? An Interview with Klára Szerb." The Hungarian Quarterly 189 (2008): 26-30

Lenard, Alexander. "A Few Words About Winnie Ille Pu." The Hungarian Quarterly 199 (2010): 87-92

Humblé, Philippe & Sepp, Arvi. "'Die Kriege haben mein Leben bestimmt': Alexander Lenard's Narratives of Brazilian Exile." In Hermann Gätje / Sikander Singh (Eds.), Grenze als Erfahrung und Diskurs (Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018)

Badel, Keuly Dariana. "Writing oneself and the other: A biography of Alexander Lenard (1951-1972)." Proceedings of the XXVI National History Symposium – ANPUH (São Paulo, July 2011)

Nascimento, Gabriela Goulart. "Erich Erdstein and the hunt for Nazis: A study on the book 'The Rebirth of the Swastika in Brazil.'" Federal University of Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, 2021)

Mosimann, João Carlos. Catarinenses: Gênese E História (Florianópolis/SC, 2010)

Kroener, Sebastian (Ed.). Das Hospital auf dem Palmenhof (Norderstedt, 2016)

Ilg, Karl. Pioniere in Brasilien (Innsbruck/Wien/München, 1972)

Lützeler, Paul Michael. "Migration und Exil in Geschichte, Mythos, und Literatur." In Bettina Bannasch / Gerhild Rochus (Eds.), Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Exilliteratur (Berlin/Boston, 2013): 3-25

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism (New York, 1993)

Said, Edward. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures (New York, 1994)

Herz-Kestranek, Miguel; Kaiser, Konstantin & Strigl, Daniela (Eds.). In welcher Sprache träumen Sie? Österreichische Lyrik des Exils und des Widerstands (Wien, 2007)

Lomb, Kató. Harmony of Babel: Profiles of Famous Polyglots of Europe (Berkeley/Kyoto, 2013)

Hungarian Periodical Obituaries and Commemorations

Egri, Viktor. "A day in the invisible house." In Confession of Quiet Evenings (Bratislava: Madách, 1973): 162-166

Antalné Serb [Mrs. Antal Szerb]. "About Sándor Lénárd." Nagyvilág 1972/8: 1241-43

Kardos, György G. "Man at the end of the world: On the death of Sándor Lénárd." Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature), May 6, 1972: 6

Charleston Gothic: Part 3- Juliet's Tomb