This year we are unveiling the new Poe Room.  A large private collection of Edgar Allan Poe books has been donated to the Midway, to create a new Gothic library on the hotel second floor.   The entire of the collection will be transported into the hotel by November 2011.

Books will not be allowed to be taken out of the room, but guests can enjoy them in this smaller library during their stays.  Other sections within the room will celebrate and include collections of the works of Anne Rice, Elaine Bergstrom, Stephen King, Poppy Z Brite, Leonard Wolf, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, David Skall, J. Gordon Melton, Katherine Ramsland, H.P. Lovecraft, William Peter Blatty, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Aleister Crowley, Leilah Wendell, and many other darker authors.  

Pittsburgh artist Kelly Macabre Noir is creating a special Poe work of art for the new room.

Currently, somewhere in Hollywood, a new television show and a feature film are both in the works celebrating Poe.