Edgar Allan Poe was paid nine dollars for "The Raven." Across his entire career, by the Poe Society of Baltimore's accounting, he earned roughly $6,200. In 2025, MC Lars raised $29,917 from 385 people to make an album about him.

Poe would have found this either vindicating or infuriating. Probably both. He was like that.

On October 16, 2026, Oglio Records releases the One Year Anniversary Edition of The Edgar Allan Poe LP, one year after MC Lars delivered the record to his Kickstarter backers on Halloween 2025. The campaign finished at roughly 598 percent of its $5,000 goal, a figure this publicist is professionally obligated to set in bold.

The album is executive produced by Adam F. Goldberg, creator of The Goldbergs, which is the sort of credit a press release usually buries in paragraph nine. // Continue to the full article