Does this mean nevermore? For the first time since 1949, a black-clad figure known as the Poe Toaster failed to show up at Edgar Allan Poe’s gravesite in Baltimore to celebrate the anniversary of the writer’s birth 101 years ago. The visitor, whose identity has remained a mystery, would raise a Cognac toast and leave behind three red roses, along with the remnants of the Cognac bottle. About 30 Poe fans stood in the cold for hours early on Jan. 19 as they waited for the mysterious visitor, The Baltimore Sun reported. Some speculated the toaster might have just had the flu or car trouble — or that he had died. “So many people have said: ‘I hope it’s not over. It was such a nice tradition,’ ” Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House, told the newspaper. “But maybe it has just run its course. It wasn’t going to last forever.”