Combining the phantasmagoric voice of Poe's legendary tales with an historian's exactness, Harold Schechter hovers between fact and fiction, horror and passion, destiny and doom, while conjuring historical detail with uncanny precision. For the ghastly crimes, each more bizarre than the last, have only just begun. 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. On the wall above her bed, scrawled in the victim's blood, is a single, cryptic word. In a modest boarding house, an elderly widow of sad circumstance has been found murdered by an unknown assailant. Neither man is prepared for where this fateful meeting will take on a quest for a killer through the city's highest and lowest streets and byways. congressman and celebrated American hero, has brought the indignant frontiersman-unexpected, uninvited - to the chamber door of Poe's private sanctum.
His recently published attack on the autobiography of Colonel David Crockett, U.S. He is Edgar Allan Poe, a literary critic known for his uncompromising standards and scathing pen. He is an aspiring writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations - a man whose troubled nights are haunted by dreams of his angelic cousin Virginia. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author - and follows a labyrinthine path into the heart of a most heinous crime. Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction in the tradition of Carr's own The Alienist. Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review).
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