Quoth Poe’s Secret Admirer, ‘Forevermore’

With his face hidden in a dark hood, a man crept into a Baltimore graveyard before dawn and raised a solitary birthday toast to Edgar Allan Poe. Continuing a 54-year tradition, the man -- whose identity remains unknown -- put his hand on Poe’s tombstone, bowed, placed three red roses and a half-empty bottle of Martel cognac on the grave and slipped away.

“To me, it’s magic,” said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum. “It would be very easy to ... expose him, but no one wants to ruin this mystery.”