Edgar Allan Poe was paid nine dollars for “The Raven.” Across his entire career, by the Poe Society of Baltimore’s accounting, he earned roughly $6,200. In 2025, MC Lars raised $29,917 from 385 people to make an album about him.

Poe would have found this either vindicating or infuriating. Probably both. He was like that.

On October 16, 2026, Oglio Records releases the One Year Anniversary Edition of The Edgar Allan Poe LP, one year after MC Lars delivered the record to his Kickstarter backers on Halloween 2025. The campaign finished at roughly 598 percent of its $5,000 goal, a figure this publicist is professionally obligated to set in bold.

The album is executive produced by Adam F. Goldberg, creator of The Goldbergs, which is the sort of credit a press release usually buries in paragraph nine. We have moved it up.

The One Year Anniversary Edition expands the original twelve tracks with seven bonus recordings, including three new 2026 versions and four songs from the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe EP, among them the Dead Milkmen collaboration “Mr. Raven” (2012) and a 2026 update of that song featuring Chicago’s Gosh Diggity. Nineteen tracks total. Guests across the record include Jaret Reddick of Bowling for Soup, longtime MC Lars collaborator Watt White, Mega Ran, Rodney Anonymous, Schäffer the Darklord, Lacey Johnson, Ash Tell Em, Christina Rotondo and Worm Quartet. The record also enlists underground prank call legends Longmont Potion Castle and Brad Carter of Phone Losers of America, who both turn up on “$3.47.”

The lead and only single, a new 2026 version of “Amontillado” featuring Watt White, arrives October 2. One single. Not a “single moment,” not a “campaign moment,” not a “pre-save activation.” A song, released before the album, so people hear it first.

TRACK LISTING

DISC 1

1. Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe? — 2:16
2. Victorian Drip — 2:24
3. Amontillado featuring Lacey Johnson — 3:29
4. OG Gothic Poet featuring Rodney Anonymous and R2 the Specialist — 4:44
5. The Devil’s in the Belfry featuring Christina Rotondo and Worm Quartet — 3:20
6. Fatal Pattern featuring Schäffer the Darklord and Brad Carter/Phone Losers of America — 2:29
7. Wiggle Wiggle Worm featuring Dory-Loup — 2:56
8. The Black Cat Came Back featuring Ash Tell Em — 4:35
9. The (Slightly Less) Abridged Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket featuring Somos Animales — 4:30
10. $3.47 featuring Schäffer the Darklord, Ash Tell Em, Brad Carter/Phone Losers of America and Longmont Potion Castle — 5:34
11. A Dream Within a Dream featuring Ash Tell Em, Christina Rotondo and Liliia Kysil — 5:14
12. 99 Ways to Die in a Poem — 4:34

DISC 2

1. Amontillado (2026) featuring Watt White — 3:37
2. Wiggle Wiggle Worm (2026) featuring Jaret Reddick — 3:08
3. Mr. Raven (2026) featuring Gosh Diggity — 3:41
4. Flow Like Poe — 4:05
5. The Tell-Tale <3 featuring Mega Ran — 3:22
6. Lenore (I Miss You) — 3:30
7. Mr. Raven (2012) featuring The Dead Milkmen — 3:12

The Edgar Allan Poe LP (Special One Year Anniversary Deluxe Expanded Edition) arrives digitally and on two-disc CD October 16, 2026, via Oglio Records.

Pre-order here: https://link.content360.io/MC_Lars

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