FILE - This Jan. 19, 2008 file photo shows the original grave of Edgar Allan Poe with a half-empty bottle of cognac and three roses left by a mysterious visitor in Baltimore. Fans of the writer plan one last vigil for the "Poe Toaster," who for decades has left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's grave on the anniversary of his birth. But no one has appeared for the last two years, and Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome says he'll wait one last time for the Toaster before calling an end to the tradition. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
FILE - This Jan. 19, 2008 file photo shows the original grave of Edgar Allan Poe with a half-empty bottle of cognac and three roses left by a mysterious visitor in Baltimore. Fans of the writer plan one last vigil for the "Poe Toaster," who for decades has left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's grave on the anniversary of his birth. But no one has appeared for the last two years, and Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome says he'll wait one last time for the Toaster before calling an end to the tradition. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
FILE - This undated file photo shows Edgar Allan Poe. Fans of the writer plan one last vigil for the mysterious "Poe Toaster," who for decades has left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's grave on the anniversary of his birth. But no one has appeared for the last two years, and Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome says he'll wait one last time for the Toaster before calling an end to the tradition. (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2008 file photo, Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum, poses next to items left at the original grave site of author Edgar Allan Poe by the "Poe Toaster" in Baltimore. Fans of the writer plan one last vigil for the mysterious visitor, who for decades has left three roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac at Poe's grave on the anniversary of his birth. But no one has appeared for the last two years, and Jerome says he'll wait one last time for the Toaster before calling an end to the tradition. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)
BALTIMORE (AP) ? Fans of gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe are planning what could be a final vigil in Baltimore to watch for a mysterious visitor who has failed to appear for two years after decades of visiting the author's grave on his birthday.
The rose and cognac tributes of an anonymous man in black ? dubbed the "Poe Toaster" ? are thought to date to at least the 1940s. Notes left with the tributes indicate the tradition passed to a new generation in the 1990s.
But the visitor hasn't appeared since 2009. Last year's vigil attracted impostors, including a man who arrived in a limo.
Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome says he'll wait one last time Wednesday night before calling an end to the tradition.
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