Edgar Allan Poe is turning 200 this year and now that the Great Poe Debate over his legacy has been put to rest in Philadelphia’s favor, two exciting acts in this year’s Fringe Festival are tipping their hats to a writer whose work still elicits chills centuries later.

Continuing in their mission to communicate the modern woman’s story through avant-garde theater, Pink Hanger Presents is excited to share Poe-sers this weekend at the Historic St. George’s United Methodist Church on N. 4th St.

This performance presents time as interwoven rather than linear with Poe’s poetry as the uniting factor that brings everything into connection, focusing on one girl and how Philly’s favorite horror writer helps her maintain control over her precarious life.

There will be three shows during the festival—Friday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 12 and Sunday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m.—and admission costs $10.

However, if you can’t make it, never fear! Poe-sers will be returning to the stage in conjunction with the Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in Philadelphia on Oct. 8-11.

Poe enthusiasts more interested in the man himself will be pleased to hear that Virginia actor Scott Craig Jones will be performing his popular one-man production Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive! this and next weekend at Studio 1831.

Jones has been honing his Poe embodiment since a high school performance of The Tell-Tale Heart and has been touring as The Traveling Jones Theater in order to reintroduce audiences to the power of American literature.

Edgar Allan Poe Comes Alive! features a humorous conversation with Poe and a number of compelling full-length readings.

There are eight hair-raising shows left before Eddie returns to the dead: Friday, Sept. 11 at midnight, Saturday, Sept. 12 at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13 at 3 p.m., Friday, Sept.18 at 5 pm and midnight, Saturday, Sept. 19 at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Admission is $15.

For more information on the Poe bicentennial celebrations, visit the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site website.