No, not the actual Edgar Allan Poe, but the Poe who comes back to life in front of crowds through performances by storyteller Darrin Crow.

The “Morbid Curiosities: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe” event will run from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Dayton Public Library, 22 First St. N.W.

Crow’s first-person presentation of Poe’s life and work has been entertaining crowds for 20 years. Crow, a Cedar Rapids native, “enjoys bringing Poe’s classic tales and poetry, from ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ to ‘The Raven,’ to life, as well as the darkly hilarious comedy, ‘The Angel of the Odd,'” according to his website.

Tanya Campbell, Dayton library director, said the library hosted Crow for a story time performance at a summer reading program party in the past. She said she received an email about the 20th anniversary of Crow’s Poe performances and decided to book him for the library.

“I was enthralled with the description of his show,” she said.

Crow will remain in character and help the audience understand the late macabre author as a person in addition to just relaying Poe’s stories, Campbell said.

The event is open to all ages, but Campbell said younger children might not be as interested, as much of the subject material might go over their heads. However, she said, middle schoolers and high schoolers, as well as adults, will enjoy the show.

“There’s still a lot of Poe lovers out there,” she said.

Campbell invites community members of all ages to the event on Wednesday.

“I think Poe’s writing is beautiful and amazing and also at the same time can be very disturbing and thought-provoking,” she said. “But I think it’s good to expose yourself to new authors if you haven’t read Poe before or if you have read Poe before, it’s always a delight to relive it and to have somebody perform his stories, I think is just going to be amazing.”

If you go

What: “An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe

When: 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday

Where: Dayton Public Library, 22 First St. N.W.