Carmen and Jeanie welcome Levi Leland to their Poe Discussions to talk about Levi's connections to Poe, his Poe walking tour in Providence, RI, and his essay in a brand new book titled, More than Love: The Enduring Fasciation with Edgar Allan Poe.

www.edgarallanpoeri.comhttps://www.amazon.com/More-Than-Love-Enduring-Fascination/dp/0881469467

Six Degrees of Poe Theme Song by The Creature Preachers

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Jeanie and Carmen discuss the degree of horror with special guests, Donovan Loucks and Levi Leland. They specifically talk about the life and works of H. P. Lovecraft in addition to Poe’s influence on Lovecraft. Donovan and Levi are this month’s Gothic Guests for The Six Degrees of Edgar Allan Poe and will be featured in their monthly newsletter, The Favored Raven. To receive their monthly newsletter, go to https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/192349/70622724380165165/share and sign up for free.

Resources

https://hplovecraft.com/

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Music by The Creature Preachers

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Jeanie and Carmen along with the Poe Unplugged group discuss Poe's short story, Hop-Frog.

https://poemuseum.org/hop-frog/

Jeanie and Carmen discuss the Universal Pictures film, Murders in the Rue Morgue, from 1932 starring Bela Lugosi and Leon Ames.

Ansel Faraj is an award-winning independent director, screenwriter, and producer. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4043796/bio/?ref_=nmmi_ql_1 He is our Gothic Guest for October and will be featured in our October newsletter, The Favored Raven. Sign up at the following link: https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/192349/70622724380165165/share

You may find him at the following:

https://www.youtube.com/@HollinsworthProductions/videos

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Jeanie and Carmen, along with the Poe Unplugged group, discuss Jules Verne's book, An Antarctic Mystery, which was a sequel to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

Jeanie and Carmen focus on their science/sci-fi degree with the world of Jules Verne.

Resources

https://poemuseum.org/the-balloon-hoax/
https://www.britannica.com/art/science-fiction
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4240502
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/strange-tale-edgar-allan-poe-and-jules-verne/

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Jeanie and Carmen interview Stephen Demczuk, founder of Raven Beer out of Baltimore, MD.

Stephen Demczuk, founder and president of RavenBeer, grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood in Dundalk, outside of Baltimore. He played lacrosse and football at the University of Maryland where he graduated in the biological sciences. He went on to receive a master's degree in cell biology at Long Island University, then attended Stony Brook University and received a master's degree and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma in biochemistry and molecular biology. This was followed by postdoctoral research in Geneva, Switzerland, assistant professor of research at Wake Forest Medical School, and continued his research as a visiting scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. By then, Stephen got the beer bug and moved to Luxembourg to continue research and eventually build a brewery in Belgium. He, instead, created the first beer-of-the-month club in Europe (Beer Around the World. He, for the first time in Luxembourg, would import beer from around the World. The beer was boxed and

shipped to club members in 10 countries around Europe. Through the beer club, he met future partner Wolfgang Stark and together they brewed Raven Special Lager in Germany. The beer

was marketed using an American theme using Baltimore’s master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. While in Luxembourg, Stephen created and broadcasted a weekly radio show, on beer and jazz, on Radio ARA broadcasted to Luxembourg and surrounding countries

Stephen moved back to the US to brew Raven Lager in Baltimore. In 2012, with two partners, he built Peabody Heights Brewery. With the help of world-renown political cartoonist Kevin

Kallaugher (Kal), he launched the award-winning Edgar Allan Poe series of beers, named after Poe’s short stories and poems. He sits on the boards of the Poe House and Museum of Baltimore and the National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre. Stephen has published over 100

articles that include original research articles, review and chapter articles in science, and articles on beer.

Stephen is a proud father of two daughters. Nicole was born in Luxembourg and a graduate of the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and Gabriella (born in Stockholm) a George Washington University graduate and former New York Times White House photographer, an award-winning White House Press Corps photographer, and multiple nominees for the Pulitzer Prize.

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