Get in the mood for Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, courtesy of and " ," this weekend and next at the .

Veronica Murphy, artistic director of Write Out Loud, is passionate about Poe.

"He is a romantic, he is Gothic, he is Victorian. He is horror!" Murphy said, sitting next to one of the gargoyles adorning a room at Villa Montezuma. "He takes us to places that are outside of our own reality, he takes us to places we barely even think to imagine. And then once you're there, he completely reels us in."

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This year's annual celebration will mix some familiar favorites with lesser-known works by Poe.

"One thing that many people — I would say most people — don't know is that Poe also wrote a number of very humorous pieces," Murphy added. "If you stumble upon one, you are pretty

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