History WebVideo / EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty

-->'''Edgar:''' Here is your character card for the evening !

* TenLittleMurderVictims: The primary plot. Edgar Allan Poe invites fellow famous writers to his home, offering them with a fake murder mystery that soon turns all too real. The guests even include Agatha Christie, who runs suspiciously late and misses the first murder, [[spoiler:and when she arrives in episode 5, she has also been murdered, with a knife in her back]].

** Eddie is also cheerful and happy to be there, and casually establishes himself as TheAce. [[spoiler:This [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers last one]] turns out to be a subversion.]]

''Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party'', also known as ''Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Invite Only Casual Dinner Party / Gala For Friends Potluck'' is a 2016 comedy/thriller webseries produced by Shipwrecked as a sequel to ''Socially Awkward Poe'', their previous work [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin centering on the daily life of a comically moody, humorless and socially backwards Edgar Allan Poe]]. You can find [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW4tvX3cYwkGsObIxlbBSxIs the prequel]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW5koycOUJ7VVfL8ddzoG4kA the prologues]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW6UjWC-qUbZSWJyCLFmsdPP the web series itself]] on Website/YouTube.

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** George Eliot using a male pseudonym and having a [[https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/silly-novels-lady-novelists-george-eliot-1856/ nasty attitude]] about other women writers gets flanderized into her ''entire role in the story'' being that she poses as a RatedMForManly stereotype in public. (The real Mary Ann Evans never actually dressed or acted as a man in public, although her fellow literary George, Creator/GeorgeSand, famously did.)

''Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party'', also known as ''[[OverlyLongTitle Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Invite Only Casual Dinner Party / Gala For Friends Potluck]]'' is a 2016 comedy/thriller webseries produced by Shipwrecked as a sequel to ''Socially Awkward Poe'', their previous work [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin centering on the daily life of a comically moody, humorless and socially backwards Edgar Allan Poe]]. You can find [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW4tvX3cYwkGsObIxlbBSxIs the prequel]], [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW5koycOUJ7VVfL8ddzoG4kA the prologues]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW6UjWC-qUbZSWJyCLFmsdPP the web series itself]] on Website/YouTube.

* OverlyLongTitle: The full name of the show, and of the in-universe event, is "Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Invite Only Casual Dinner Party / Gala For Friends Potluck". The original [[https://youtu.be/LLkG7nbl0x8 announcement video]] shows that Poe keeps adding extra words to the invitation despite Lenore's objections.

* CastingGag: Episode 11 reveals [[spoiler: Laura Spencer as Jane Austen, referencing her role as Jane in ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'']]. This is especially noteworthy as she is acting alongside fellow stars Ashley Clements and Mary Kate Wiles.

** Even the basic idea of this show is a glaring anachronism, as Poe happily lampshades in the Kickstarter video, announcing that [[BreakingTheFourthWall according to his research on Wikipedia]] his murder mystery dinner will not only be the best but the ''first'' and ''only'' murder mystery dinner (since the idea of a "murder mystery dinner" was, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, invented in 1981 in RealLife).

* {{Flanderization}}: Much of the show's humor comes from this, building the characters' personalities entirely off of a stereotype based on one or two elements of the real person's work and then exaggerating it UpToEleven, often to a level that's almost CanonDefilement for people familiar with the real history. It's particularly notable that while some of the characterizations were just exaggerations of how they were seen in life -- Poe's neuroticism, Dickinson's reclusiveness -- others are wildly divergent.

** Eddie is the first person to take a sip of the soup and collapses immediately afterwards, although H.G. Wells goes on to then dunk his whole face in the soup without ill effect.

** Subverted by [[spoiler: Annabel Lee's]] death, which is taken seriously and [[DownerEnding ends the episode on a downer]].

* FaceplantingIntoFood: Played for drama when the first episode reveals [[spoiler: Eddie]] facedown in the soup (to Lenore's dismay). Played for laughs in the next episode when [[CloudCuckoolander H.G. Wells]], thinking it's part of the game, does the same.

* CaptainObvious: Agatha Christie is found dead, with a knife and nine additional holes in her back. Edgar's conclusion, [[OverlyLongGag after individually counting all nine stab wounds]]:

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When [[spoiler:Eddie]] is found dead, head plunged in his plate of soup, ''everyone'' gets their turn at completely misunderstanding the situation as Poe desperately tries to state that ThisIsReality. Has to be expected for writers.

* FaceplantingIntoFood: Played for drama when the first episode reveals [[spoiler: Eddie]] facedown in the soup (to Lenore's dismay). Played for laughs in the next episode when H.G. Wells, thinking it's part of the game, does the same.

* OverlyLongTitle: The full name of the show, and of the in-universe event, is "Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Invite Only Casual Dinner Party / Gala For Friends Potluck". As a result, most fans just call it [[FanNickname Poe Party]]. The original [[https://youtu.be/LLkG7nbl0x8 announcement video]] shows that Poe keeps adding extra words to the invitation despite Lenore's objections.

** Chapter 1: [[spoiler:Eddie]].[[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], since he didn’t actually die]].

** Chapter 1: [[spoiler:Eddie]].[[[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], since he didn’t actually die]].

Together, they will invite/kidnap Poe's large circle of famous literary acquaintances in order to dazzle her with his connections and sophistication, thus making Eddie "look like a disfigured orphan who kills small animals for fun". To justify the party, Poe crafts a gothic murder mystery complete with roleplay, imaginary clues and lights that go off before each "victim" is murdered. That fateful evening, a colorful cast assembles: [[ShrinkingViolet Emily Dickinson]], [[MemeticBadass Ernest Hemingway]], [[TheComicallySerious Mary]] [[CreepyAwesome Shelley]], [[GranolaGirl Louisa May Alcott]], [[AgentPeacock Oscar]] [[HeroicComedicSociopath Wilde]], [[PaperThinDisguise George]] [[SamusIsAGirl Eliot]], [[RichBitch Charlotte]] [[ControlFreak Brontë]], [[TheAlcoholic Fyodor]] [[FunnyForeigner Dostoevsky]], [[MadScientist H.G. Wells]] and [[GenreSavvy Agatha Christie]].

* TheAlcoholic: Fyodor and Lenore have that in common. He's delighted !

* PaperThinDisguise: George Eliot wants to appear male, and plans to achieve the goal by using a WigDressAccent setup, a persona that's ''oozing'' with bro stereotypes and heavy heaps of SuspiciouslySpecificDenial. Literally ''no one'' is fooled except for Ernest Hemingway.