Pleasing Terrors

A wax figurine forgotten in museum storage. A book of poems that prophesied a ghost. A woman on a beach who found something she wasn't looking for. In the final episode of the Charleston Gothic series, the investigation returns to where it began — the Dock Street Theatre — and follows the last of three trails through Charleston's tangled relationship with Edgar Allan Poe. Along the way, a century-old literary vision resurfaces, a forgotten poet speaks truths the city wasn't ready to hear, and the question that launched the series finally gets its answer.   Sources referenced in the episode: Books Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe by  Hervey Allen (1926) Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country  by DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen (1922) The Arrow of Lightning by Beatrice Witte Ravenel (1926) The Dreamer: A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe  by Mary Newton Stanard Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston  by Christopher Byrd Downey Poe's Brother: The Poems of William Henry Leonard Po