![]() ![]() 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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