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Beyond The Oblong Box is a podcast born of a need to eliminate misinformation about Edgar Allan Poe. Join your hosts Levi Leland and Virginia Poe as they discuss the loves, life, works, and the world in which Poe once resided.
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Send us a text Summer time for vacations, with family or friends. Time for riding your bike till you just can’t anymore. Time for picnics and reading a good book by the poolside. The end of summer will soon be here. If you didn’t see any books that caught your eye, here are some we think you would really enjoy. But don’t take our word for it… Welcome back to the BToB Summer Reading PoeGram. Today we share some of our favorite Poe related books for the young and the young at heart.
Send us a text Summer, time for vacations, with family or friends. Time for riding your bike till you just can’t anymore. Time for picnics and reading a good book by the poolside. The end of summer will soon be here. If you didn’t see any books that caught your eye, here are some we think you would really enjoy. But don’t take our word for it… Welcome back to the BToB Summer Reading PoeGram. We just love Gris Grimly and could not help ourselves. Join us in as we journey into the 2009 publica...
Send us a text Summer, time for vacations, with family or friends. Time for riding your bike till you just can’t anymore. Time for picnics and reading a good book by the poolside. The end of summer will soon be here. If you didn’t see any books that caught your eye, here are some we think you would really enjoy. But don’t take our word for it… Welcome to the official start of Season III for Beyond the Oblong Box. And what a better way to do that than share summer reading recommendations with...
Send us a text In this special episode, Levi and Virginia are special guests to their Sister PoeCast, The 6 Degrees of Edgar Allan Poe. In this latest installment of Poe Places, they discuss the significance of Rhode Island and Sarah Helen Whitman in the life of our beloved poet. For more from Carmen and Jeannie, visit them on Spotify and all major podcast platforms by searching the The 6 Degrees of Edgar Allan Poe. sixdegreesofpoe.com
Send us a text In this special episode, Levi and Virginia receive a special invitation from their sister Poecast, The Six Degrees of Poe to celebrate Edgar’s 215th birthday. So raise a cup, with pinkies to the birthday lad! Next week, Levi and Virginia get back with Season 3!
Send us a text Death was often a subject of Victorian literature. Many of Poe’s best known works are no exception. Levi and Virginia have a conversation with author, Sharon Pajka inside of Westminster Burial Grounds about her upcoming book, The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe.
Send us a text Treasure and puzzles and pirates…Oh MY! Today Levi and Virginia touch on The Gold Bug in honor of its 180th anniversary.
Send us a text This week, Levi and Virginia time travel back to the The TellTale SteamPunk Festival. The Poe-tastic Two (Jeanie and Carmen from The Six Degrees Of Poe Podcast) join them for the second of the festival exclusive episodes.
Send us a text This episode was a special taping, exclusively at The Tell Tale Steampunk Festival in Baltimore, Maryland. In this episode Levi and Virginia ask an age old question to our studio audience. (Yep…we had folks come and join for the show!) Was Poe a time traveler???
Send us a text April Fools, what a day. Today we share with you a smattering of your hosts goof ups and frustrations. Ok, let’s face it, Virginia is the one will the difficulties. And yes, she freely admits it. Enjoy!
Send us a text As we conclude the month of Price and Poe, we cover our namesake…The Oblong Box.
Send us a text Levi and Virginia are back again to discuss the story of Ligeia and the 1964 Corman adaptation. Special guest, Mel Grosvenor joins our gruesome twosome for todays episode.
Send us a text In this episode Levi and Virginia compare and contrast The House of Usher and its movie counterpart. So grab your left over Halloween candy and your favorite beverage while we reminisce about a very troubled home. And don’t act like you don’t know what we are talking about. We know where you keep your plunder!! Warning : This episode contains SPOILERS for the story and the movie!!
Send us a text We are halfway to Halloween this month. Join Levi and Virginia as they reflect on the late, great Vincent Price and his connection to Poe in the first installment of The Price of Poe series.
Send us a text As we close out the 2023 installments of For The Love Of Poe, Levi and Virginia discuss the ultimate poem of lost love, The Raven.
Send us a text In the third installment for this years For The Love Of Poe, we turn our attention to Mary Starr. Our producer Elliot makes another guest appearance. Disclaimer: We are not exactly sure what happened with Virginia’s audio for this episode, but it is a bit choppy. Please forgive us. We tried our best to fix it and due to events and previous engagements we had zero time to re-record.
Send us a text In this installment of For The Love Of Poe, Levi and Virginia discuss Edgar's first and last love, Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton.
Send us a text Welcome to the first chapter in our second installment of For The Love Of Poe! Today Levi and Virginia bring a spot light to center stage, as they discuss the renowned Eliza Poe and the lives of 19th century actors.
Send us a text Happy Birthday Oblong Box!!! This episode marks a year since our debut. We are so glad we got here! On the eve of the anniversary of Virginia’s passing, we discuss the rumored images and the true images of the late Mrs. Poe.
Send us a text Levi and Virginia have been on a longish hiatus, but its over now. Today they discuss the truth & legend behind Edgar’s time at West Point and The Pale Blue Eye.
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