BALTIMORE – For decades, Halloween and Edgar Allen Poe have been intertwined for citizens of this city, where his mortal remains reside. But some Poe acolytes argue the writer’s final resting place has been shrouded by a mystery worthy of one of his macabre tales.
A faction of Poe disciples have long argued that the corpse below the family monument in Westminster churchyard at Fayette and Greene streets is not the writer but — because of a long-ago disinterment mix-up — James Mosher, a veteran of the War of 1812 killed in the Battle of North Point.
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