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Oct 29, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe: America's Spookiest Classic with Fr. Ryan Duns and Steven Knepper
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Nadya WilliamsHOST
And there's something really... spooky about it, but also just the sense of spooky that is almost demonic.
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39:14Steven KnepperGUEST
Yeah, and fun fact, Dostoevsky really liked Poe and introduced a couple translations of Poe for a magazine in Russia.
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39:25Steven KnepperGUEST
It's interesting, Poe is a mixed bag with other prominent American writers.
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39:35Steven KnepperGUEST
But with some of the great international writers, you know, Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Poe is so important to them.
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53:57Ryan DunsGUEST
And I think that's one way you can read The Haunted Palace is almost as a critique of Kant's confidence in the Enlightenment and in Enlightenment reasons.