Edgar Allan Poe Lives in Performances of David Keltz
Just in time for Halloween, David Keltz shares his passion for Edgar Allan Poe by performing a one-man show about the author.
David Keltz was first exposed to the work of Edgar Allen Poe when he was a student in junior high school, and it had such an impact that sleep was impossible that night. Keltz said the door to his bedroom was slightly open, as it is in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart," but he kept imagining it was opening wider and wider (again, as in the story). That a piece of fiction would be so disturbing it would cause one to lose a night's sleep would be enough for some people to steer clear of that writer, but not Keltz, who not only went on to read the rest of Poe's poems, essays, and recorded conversations, but would commit about 10 stories and many poems to memory. Using Poe's work, which amounts to about five hours of material, Keltz toured …
