Identical twin boys, Edgar and Alan Poe, are the great-great-great-great
grandnephews of the famous writer Edgar Alan Poe. Edgar and Alan are quite a pair;
they have been described as two boys sharing one brain. They live with their
Aunt Judith and Uncle Jack and their black cat with a white figure eight on
his tummy, Roderick Usher.
Some would say that Edgar and Alan are too smart for their own good. After
learning of the disappearance of Roderick Usher, Edgar and Alan devise a plan
to trick the social worker into believing that they are being over worked in
their homeschooling by Aunt Judith. Thus begins the adventure to Kansas to
retrieve Roderick Usher from Professor Marvel, who owns a Dorothy Gail
amusement park.
Along their way to Kansas, Edgar and Alan receive discrete messages from their
great-great-great-great uncle Edgar Alan Poe, from the Great Beyond. You see, Poe
works in a cubicle in the writing department under the supervision of William Shakespeare. Usually, Poe communicates to the boys through fortune cookies, however Poe
is not supposed to be intervening in their lives and his messages become
mixed up. The boys eventually learn the real meanings behind the messages, but almost a little too late.
This was read by Arte Johnson.
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