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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
by John Evangelist WalshMystery surrounds the last six days of the life of poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe. Author John Evangelist Walsh has re-examined documents relating to Poe's death and produces evidence that Poe's own end may have been a horror only matched in his own stories.
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy
by Jeffrey MeyersThis biography of Edgar Allan Poe, a giant of American Literature who invented both the horror and detective genre, is a portrait of extremes: a disinherited heir, a brilliant but underpaid author, a temperate man and uncontrollable addict.
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Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance
by Kenneth SilvermanFrom a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer, the most revealing, fascinating, and important biography of one of our greatest literary figures.
The tell-tale heart : the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe
by Julian Symons.The Tell-Tale Heart strips away the myths that have grown up around the life of Edgar Allen Poe, and provides a completely fresh assessment of both the man and his work. Symons reveals Poe as his contemporaries saw him - a man struggling to make a living out of hack journalism and striving to find a backer for his new magazine, and a man whose life was beset by so many tragedies that he was often driven to excessive drinking and a string of unhealthy relationships. Fittingly written by another master in the art of crime writing, The Tell-Tale Heart brilliantly portrays the original creator of the detective story and reveals him as the genius - and unashamed plagiarist - that he was.
Edgar Allan Poe, the unknown Poe : an anthology of fugitive writings by Edgar Allan Poe, with appreciations by Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry, J.K. Huysmans & André Breton
Edited by Raymond FoyeAn indispensable anthology of brilliant hard-to-find writings by Poe on poetry, the imagination, humor, and the sublime which adds a new dimension to his stature as a speculative thinker and philosopher. Essays (in translation) by Charles Baudelaire Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valéry, & André Breton shed light on Poe's relevance within European literary tradition.
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
By Daniel HoffmanAn interesting and entertaining critical study of Poe's life and works written by a former U.S Poet Laureate.
The complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe.All of Poe's tales and 53 of his best known poems plus essays, criticisms and journalistic writings.
Madeline: After the Fall of Usher
By Marie KiralyMadeline: After the Fall of Usher is Marie Kiraly's brilliant fictional journey through the most infamous house in literature. Years after writing The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe meets the granddaughter of the real Madeline Usher -- and uncovers a secret as twisted as the cursed House itself.
Usher’s passing
By Robert R. McCammon.Taking up the tale begun by Edgar Allan Poe more than a century ago, this spellbinding story tells of the terrors of a new House of Usher. It has a new master. The young heir, Rix Usher, is reluctant to return home. But the House of Usher has chosen him to take the reins from his dying father and to learn the house's terrible secrets. Another evil has lived and grown within the House of Usher - a legacy of depravity and bloodshed that goes back for generations, and stains the hallways of the family mansion.
The Poe Shadow
By Matthew pearl"Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe's family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a crusade to salvage Poe's. As Quentin explores the puzzling circumstances of Poe's demise, he discovers that the writer's last days are riddled with unanswered questions the police are ignoring. Just when Poe's death seems destined to remain a mystery, inspiration strikes Quentin - in the form of Poe's own stories. The young attorney realizes that he must find the one person who can solve the strange case of Poe's death: the real-life model for Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C. Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection. Quentin soon finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. In order to unchain his imperiled fate from Poe's, Quentin must himself turn master investigator.
The Black Cat
By Robert PoeEdgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Black Cat," tells of a good man slowly deteriorating into evil. Now, Robert Poe retells the story, expanding upon the dark forces that drive men to evil deeds. A vulnerable young woman claiming to be a witch arrives in Crowley Creek. Is she simply disturbed, or does she represent darker forces? John Charles Poe, town journalist and descendant of Edgar Allen, is haunted by the eerie resemblance of the events unfolding in Crowley Creek to his ancestor's classic tale. Guided by a secret cache of papers left to him by Edgar Allan Poe, he sets out to discover what is behind the outbreak of evil in his town.
Return to the House of Usher
By Robert PoeInherited by his distant relative, Edgar Allan Poe's notes from his classic short story contain the key to saving the last of the Ushers from the strange events in the mysterious house, now a sanatorium.
The Hum Bug
By Harold SchechterHaving proved his deductive brilliance solving Baltimore's notorious "Nevermore Murders," Edgar Allan Poe turns his investigative eye to the streets of mid-nineteenth century New York City. A young beauty with a shadowy past has been savagely murdered; her hideous wounds mirror a gruesome tableau in P.T. Barnum's wax exhibit -- and it is in defense of his own innocence that America's greatest showman has come to Poe for help. But neither the writer nor the huckster has anticipated the jagged maze that is the soul of a madman.
The Mask of Red Death
By Harold SchechterSuspense, intrigue, atmosphere, and vivid historical detail combine into a thrilling ride through nineteenth-century New York City in The Mask of Red Death. Harold Schechter delivers both a wonderfully accurate portrait of a city in turmoil and an irresistibly appealing depiction of his amateur sleuth Edgar Allan Poe, mirroring the master's writing style with wit and acumen.
Nevermore
By Harold SchechterHe is an aspiring writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations - a man whose troubled nights are haunted by dreams of his angelic cousin Virginia. He is Edgar Allan Poe, a literary critic known for his uncompromising standards and scathing pen. His recently published attack on the autobiography of Colonel David Crockett, U.S. congressman and celebrated American hero, has brought the indignant frontiersman - unexpected, uninvited - to the chamber door of Poe's private sanctum. Neither man is prepared for where this fateful meeting will take them: on a quest for a killer through the city's highest and lowest streets and byways. In a modest boarding house, an elderly widow of sad circumstance has been found murdered by an unknown assailant. On the wall above her bed, scrawled in the victim's blood, is a single, cryptic word. But the meaning of the chilling clue is merely one piece in a complex puzzle that ensnares the writer and the politician in a twisted and deadly game. The ghastly crimes, each more bizarre than the last, have only just begun.