Poe-Ho-Ho! It's Our Year-End Appeal!

If you saw this year's "A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe," or listened to any of Poe Theatre on the Air's radio drama adaptations on National Public Radio, this is your chance to help us do even more in 2026.

In 2025, The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre did so many wonderful things, with your help:

• Five new radio drama productions on National Public Radio: “The Purloined Letter,” “The Beast in the Cave,” “The Spectacles,” “Hop Frog,”  “The Pit and the Pendulum”
• Our fourth annual Doomsday 24-hour Readathon of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, streamed internationally with participants from the UK, Scotland, Italy and across the US
• A hosted presentation called “Performing Poe” at the HL Mencken House in Baltimore, with Stephen Smith of UK’s Threedumb Theatre
• Four Poe-themed mentalism and mindreading shows, called “Magic of Words,” with our resident mentalist Alexander the Pretty Good

And, most importantly, we rounded out the year with the critically-acclaimed, international debut production of “A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe,” from award-winning author and playwright Zac Pensol.

We’re not going to lie. It was a lot to do with very limited resources. But next year will be even bigger – our fifth annual Doomsday readathon, a remounting of "A Christmas Carol for Edgar Allan Poe," six more NPR radio dramas,  and a remounting of our cabaret-style stage show, “Edgar Allan Poe’s Blood, Sweat and Fears.”

With grants to arts organizations becoming harder to come by, your tax-deductible donations are more important than ever. We literally can’t do it without you.

Please give what you can.

We hope to raise $20,000, but really, every penny counts. It will all go to The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre’s mission of  providing quality entertainment on stage, for broadcast and in schools – while promoting the works of America’s grandfather of horror and suspense.

And remember, “all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”