New York City’s oldest intact family home—a red-brick townhouse at 28 East Fourth Street—was built in 1832. That townhouse is now the Merchant’s House Museum, a charming time-travel in a 19th-century interior but also a place that’s been called “Manhattan’s most haunted house.” So it’s no surprise that it makes a perfect setting for this one-man show about Edgar Allen Poe, who just happened to live nearby when his poem “The Raven” was published in 1845. John Kevin Jones is well known for his one-man performances of A Christmas Carol, an annual treat that takes place in the Merchant’s House. He’s now into his fourth year with Poe, which sees him performing such classics as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” Natalia Paruz warms up the audience with music played on the carpenter’s saw, and the medium Heather Carlucci appears after Sunday performances to give in-person psychic readings. —Laura Jacobs