Baltimore resident David Keltz first became spellbound by Edgar Allan Poe at age 13.

“I was supposed to read ‘Telltale Heart.’ I was so fascinated with it that even though the teacher was out of the room and kids were acting up, I read it twice,” the actor remembered. “The atmosphere of it affected me so much that that night when I was trying to go to sleep, I kept imagining that my bedroom door was slowly opening.”