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# Episode 101: To the Teeth
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-101-to-the-teeth/
- Published: 2025-08-17T21:52:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-23T17:05:15.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: episode 101, Edgar Allan Poe, horror, history of horror, horror literature, 19th century, history

Show Notes:

In which Carla shares one of Poe's more controversial and violent stories with you.  
  
Sources:  
[Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Tales - Berenice](https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/bernicee.htm)  
[Berenice – The Poe Museum](https://poemuseum.org/berenice/)  
[Berenice (short story) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice%5F%28short%5Fstory%29)  
[Southern Literary Messenger - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%5FLiterary%5FMessenger)  
[A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780195121506), edited by J. Gerald Kennedy  
  
Theme song and stinger: “She Comes Through the Fog” by Haunted Me, used with permission.   
  
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