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Books About Edgar Allan Poe
[1809-1849]
![color photo of actor John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49] from 'The Raven' [2012]](images/actorJohnCusackasEAPoe-inTheRaven2012.jpg "color photo of actor John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49] from 'The Raven' [2012]") |
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Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to have invented the American horror story,
the modern detective story, and science fiction. While Poe is usually taught as a literary master,
he was also an intellectual giant on the level of Michelangelo or da Vinci or Einstein.
see also Spirit of America Bookstore's main Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49] Page
see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Movies of Edgar Allan Poe Page
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Born Edgar Poe; his father abandoned the family shortly after Edgar's birth. When Edgar was two and a half years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. Edgar was raised by Frances Allan, the wife of a Richmond, Virginia merchant who never legally adopted him.
Edgar Allan Poe entry at Wikipedia
Edgar Allan Poe Portal at Wikipedia
browse the Edgar Allan Poe Store {returns 380+ titles} at Amazon
Edgar Allan Poe credits [250+ entries since 1908] at Internet Movie Database
Non-Fiction Works About Edgar Allan Poe
"The Life and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" [W.J. Widdleton, 1877]
by Eugene Lemoine Didier & Sarah Helen Whitman
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Poems-Edgar-Allan-Poe/dp/1113801891/
"Edgar Allan Poe: The Man" [John C. Winston Co., 1926] by Mary E. Phillips
"Edgar Allan Poe: A Study In Genius" [Alfred A. Knopf, 1926] by Joseph Wood Krutch
"The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe" [Stanley Paul & Co. 1928] by John Arthur Thomas Lloyd
http://www.amazon.com/The-murder-Edgar-Allan-Poe/dp/B0006ALMBK/
 | "Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography" [1941] by Arthur Hobson Quinn, 1997 Foreword by Shawn Rosenheim Kindle Edition from Johns Hopkins Univ Press [1997 edition] for $22.49 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [12/97] for $33.49 Appleton/Cooper Square Publng hardcover [6/1941] long out of print/scarce |
"The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849" [G.K. Hall & Co., 1987]
by Dwight Thomas & David K. Jackson ISBN 0783814011
"Edgar Allan Poe" (Bloom's Literary Criticism)" [1988] by literary critic Harold Bloom [1930-2019]
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Blooms-Modern-Critical/dp/0791085678/
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Blooms-Modern-Critical/dp/0877546029/
"Poe and His Times: The Artist and His Milieu" [Edgar Allan Poe Society, 1990]
by Stanton Garner ISBN 0-9616449-2-3
"Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance" [Harper Perennial, 1991]
by Kenneth Silverman ISBN 0060923318
 | "Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy" [1992] by Jeffrey Meyers Kindle Edition from Cooper Square Press [2000 edition] for $12.90 Cooper Square Press 9x6 pb [9/2000] for $16.88 Scribner 9½x6¼ hardcover [8/92] for $20.01 |
"Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe" [St. Martin's Minotaur, 2000]
by John Evangelist Walsh ISBN 0312227329
"Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z" [Checkmark Books, 2001] by Dawn B. Sova ISBN 081604161X
"A Brief Biography: A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe" [Oxford Univ Press, 2001]
by J. Gerald Kennedy ISBN 9780195121506
"A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (Jan 4, 2001) by J. Gerald Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Guide-Guides-American-Authors/dp/019512149X/
"The Cambridge Companion To Edgar Allan Poe" [Cambridge Univ Press, 6/2002]
by Kevin J. Hayes ISBN 0521793262
"Poe" [Univ Press Mississippi, 2005] by James M. Hutchisson ISBN 1-57806-721-9
"The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe [3/2007] by Scott Peeples
http://www.amazon.com/Afterlife-Edgar-Literary-Criticism-Perspective/dp/1571133577/
 | "The Everything Guide To Edgar Allan Poe: The Life, Times, and Work of A Tormented Genius" [2007] by Shelley Costa Bloomfield, PhD
Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [8/2007] for $14.99 Adams Media 9x6 pb [9/2007] for $13.24 |
"Edgar Allan Poe and The Dupin Mysteries" [Nov 2008] by Richard Kopley
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Dupin-Mysteries/dp/0230120385/
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Dupin-Mysteries/dp/0230604706/
"Nevermore: A Photobiography of Edgar Allan Poe" [grades 5 & up; 2009] by Karen Lange
http://www.amazon.com/Nevermore-Photobiography-Edgar-Allan-Photobiographies/dp/142630398X/
"Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism" [Aug 2011)
by James M. Hutchisson, Amy C. Branam, Dennis Eddings & Benjamin F. Fisher
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poe-Beyond-Gothicism/dp/1611490685/
"The Life of Edgar Allan Poe" [Aug 3, 2011] by William Fearing Gill
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Edgar-Allan-Poe/dp/1115294032/
 | "Origins of Poe's Critical Theory" [2011] by Margaret Alterton Poe himself and many others have often described the literary theory which underlies all of his work, this book examines how that theory was formed. Severus Verlag 8¼x5¾ pb [8/2011] for $51.74 |
"Jamais Plus: Explorations of The Curious Case of The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe"
[Oct 2011] by Will Entrekin /B005TA9CTQ/
"Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond: The Raven In The River City" [3/2012] by Christopher P. Semtner
http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-Allan-Poes-Richmond-Raven/dp/1609496078/
 | "Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living" biography [2014] by Paul Collins Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2014] for $3.99 {sic} New Harvest/Icons 8¼x5¾ hardcover [8/2014] for $12.65 |
 | "Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe" [2014] by J.W. Ocker Author visits seven states and the U.K. and reports on museums, artifacts, and Poe fans & scholars Kindle Edition from Countryman Press [10/2014] for $9.99 Countryman Press 9x6 pb [10/2014] for $14.29 |
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"Edgar Allan Poe: The Strange Man Standing Deep In The Shadows" [2015] by Charlotte Montague Oxford/Chartwell Books 10¾x7¾ hardcover [10/2015] for $14.99 |
Fiction About Edgar Allan Poe
"The Man Who Collected Poe" [1951 short story] by Robert Bloch in which a fanatical Poe collector proves to
have resurrected ('collected') the real Poe and has him locked in his back room writing new Poe-esque stories.
 | "Bogey Men" collection [10 stories 1963] by Robert Bloch Pyramid F-839 mass pb [1963] out of print/used |
 | "Torture Garden" [Columbia Pictures July 1968] Bloch wrote the frame & four episodes from four of his stories: segment 1 "Enoch"; segment 2 "Terror Over Hollywood"; segment 3 "Mr. Steinway"; and segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe" starring Jack Palance, Peter Cushing, Roy Godfrey & Hedger Wallace Directed by Freddie Francis; also starring Burgess Meredith, Beverly Adams, Maurice Denham & Barbara Ewing Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD [10/2005] for $7.19 Columbia Pictures color VHS [9/86] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Poe Must Die: A Novel" [1968] by Marc Olden Renowned British former bare-knuckle fighter Pierce James Figg arrives in New York City in the 1840s carrying with him a letter of introduction from Charles Dickens to Edgar Allan Poe. Figg is pursuing Jona-than the Sorcerer, who brutally murdered Figg's wife and is in America in pursuit of the Throne of Solomon, which gives its owner immortality and dominion over Lucifer and other demons. Figg asks Poe for help. Charter Books mass pb [9/78] out of print/used Littlehampton Book Services, Ltd mass pb [11/78] out of print/used CreateSpace 8x5 pb [1/2011] out of print/used |
 | "The Last Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: The Troy Dossier" [1978 novel] by Manny Meyers Set in 1846; Poe helps New York City's new police department solve a pair of murders, which are found to be connected to a plot to overthrow the U.S. government. Leisure Books mass pb [6/86] out of print/used B.M.I. mass pb [1978] out of print/used Lippincott hardcover [1978] out of print/scarce book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "The Man Who Was Poe" [1989 juvenile novel] by Avi A young boy named Edmund in Providence, Rhode Island befriends C. Auguste Dupin, who is actually Poe himself; Edmund and 'Dupin' solve several mysteries. HarperCollins Childrens Books 7½x5 pb [8/91] out of print/used Avon Flare Books mass pb [8/91] out of print/used Perfection Learning 7x4 hardcover [8/91] for $12.19 Orchard Books 9x6 hardcover [1989] out of print/used |
 | "The Black Throne" [1990] by Roger Zelazny & Fred Saberhagen Edgar Perry is warned by a beautiful fantasm from his past, who then flees to Europe aboard a pirate ship; Perry follows, meets detective August Dupin, and exchanges lives with the author Edgar Allen Poe; mixed reviews on Amazon, apparently the Poe/Dupin parts are fine, but the rest of the story drags. Baen Fantasy mass pb [9/90] out of print/many, many used Baen Fantasy mass pb [11/2002] out of print/many used Baen Fantasy 9x6½ hardcover [9/90] out of print/used |
 | "Madeline: After The Fall of Usher" [1996] by Marie KiralyA mysterious woman named Pamela is searching for her mother and her own child; she enlists Poe to help her and they eventually locate Madeline Usher, who was not killed in the destruction of the family's cursed house. Berkley mass pb [12/96] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Return To The House of Usher: Based On The Notes & Non-Fiction Writings of Edgar Allan Poe" [1996] by Robert Poe
John Charles Poe is a struggling reporter in modern small-town Virginia. The head of the Usher Sanitorium (built on the grounds of the original House of Usher) asks Poe and his assistant to investigate strange happenings at the hospital. Tor Books mass pb [10/97] out of print/many used Forge 8¼x5¾ hardcover [10/96] out of print/many used |
 | "The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe: A Novel" [1997] by George Egon Hatvary
Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin befriends the author and subsequently investigates Poe's mysterious death. ("Poe fans may not be able to resist the conceit of his murder being avenged by his most famous fictional creation.") Carroll & Graf 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/97] out of print/many used |
 | "In The Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe" [2002] graphic novel by Jonathon Scott Fuqua featuring the photographic art of Stephen John Phillips & Steven Parke 96-page Vertigo 9¾x6½ pb [8/2003] for $8.45 96-page Vertigo 10½x7 hardcover [10/2002] for $40.95 |
Edgar Poe Mystery Novels by Harold Schechter
author's official website
author entry at Wikipedia
 | "Nevermore: A Novel" [#1 = 1999] A scathing review of the autobiography of Col. David Crockett brings the frontiersman-now-Congress-man to Edgar Poe's Baltimore chambers, to demand an apology; events lead to a series of gruesome murders which the two men try to solve . . . Kindle Edition from Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [6/2010] for $9.99 Atria Books 9x6 pb [8/2009] for $19.65 Pocket mass pb [2000] out of print/40+ used Atria Books 9¾x6½ hardcover [1999] for $12.00 |
 | "The Hum Bug" [#2 = 2001] / renamed "Edgar Poe At The Mystery Museum" Edgar and his frail wife Sissy have moved to Manhattan; an exhibit of Davy Crockett artifacts at P.T. Barnum's Mystery Museum is fraudulant, as Edgar owns the original items; the controversy pleases Barnum, for he loves publicity of any kind; but the next round of press attention connects Barnum to a fresh brutal murder, so he hires young Poe to help clear his name. MM: Kindle Edition from Author & Company [3/2013] for $4.99 HB: Pocket mass pb [11/2002] out of print/used HB: Atria Books 9½x6½ hardcover [11/2001] for $12.41 |
 | "The Mask of Red Death" [#3 = 2004] / renamed "Edgar Poe and The Frontier Fiend" Two girls are brutally murdered in the sweltering summer of 1845, their throats slashed, viciously scalped, and - most shocking of all - missing their livers. Prime suspect is one of the human attractions at P.T. Barnums American Museum, the redskin Chief Wolf Bear. Writer Edgar Poe finds a third victim, a man who is also scalped. Then Western scout Kit Carson appears, on the trail of a liver-eating killer . . . FF: Kindle Edition from Author & Company [3/2013] for $4.99 MRD: Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [7/2005] out of print/used MRD: Ballantine Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2004] out of print/used |
 | "The Tell-Tale Corpse" [#4 = 2006] / renamed "Edgar Poe and The Concord Killer"
P.T. Barnum implores Edgar Poe to go to Boston and obtain a medicine urgently needed by Poe's ailing wife and also to bring back several crime-scene artifacts for Barnum's museum; while in Boston, Edgar stumbles into serial killings that the authorities have not yet connected; he is joined by fellow author Louisa May Alcott in the search for the killer . . . CK: Kindle Edition from Author & Company [3/2013] for $4.99 TTC: Ballantine Books 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2006] for $9.00 |
  | "Batman Nevermore" comic book mini-series [2003] Written by Len Wein, Illustrated by Guy Davis, Covers Painted by Bernie Wrightson the five chapters of the comic book mini-series are entitled "Once Upon A Midnight Dreary", "The Hideous Beast", "A Commotion of The Earth", "The Fearful Scimitar", and "Masque of The Red Death" Issue #1: DC Comics pb [6/2003] for $13.86 Issue #2: DC Comics pb [6/2003] for $2.99 {sic} Issue #3: DC Comics pb [6/2003] for $21.88 Issue #4: DC Comics pb [6/2003] for $19.99 Issue #5: DC Comics pb [6/2003] for $29.99 |
 | "The Poe Shadow: A Novel" New York Times bestseller [2006] by Matthew Pearl No one in 1849 Baltimore is much interested in solving the brutal death of minor author Edgar Allan Poe until admirer Quentin Clark, a young Baltimore lawyer, decides to restore Poe's reputation, is inspired to look for clues in Poe's writings, and soon becomes enmeshed with political schemes, the corrupt local slave trade, and a female assassin . . . author's official website book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Random House [2006 edition] for $6.99 Random House 8x5 pb [7/2007] for $13.78 Random House 9½x6¾ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.63 "La Sombra de Poe / The Poe Shadow" Spanish Edition [2006] Debolsillo 7½x5 pb [6/2017] for $11.66 "Cien Poego / The Poe Shadow" Polish Edition [2017] Sonia Draga 8x5¾ pb [2017] for $30.97 |
 | "The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and The Invention of Murder" [2006] by Daniel Stashower
The body of a twenty-year-old cigar girl was found floating in the Hudson River in July 1841, and New York's untrained and corrupt police force failed to solve the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to look into the case, and the result was a solution to the baffling murder by his fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin. Berkley Trade 7½x5½ pb [12/2007] for $21.00 Dutton Adult 9x6½ hardcover [10/2006] out of print/hundreds used |
 | "Edgar Allan Poe On Mars: The Further Memoirs of Gullivar Jones" [2007] by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier Gullivar Jones, the legendary warrior from Mars' ancient past, was created by Edwin Lester Arnold in his classic sci-fi novel Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation [1905]. In this sequel, The Enchanter Montressor and his ward Ligeia bring together Gullivar Jones and Edgar Allan Poe, a struggling young writer from 1827 Baltimore, and send them on a dangerous mission to stop the machinations of Rodrik-Usher the Damned . . . or both their worlds will be destroyed! (Cameo appearance by Auguste Dupin.) Hollywood Comics 8x5 pb [12/2007] for $20.95 |
 | "Days When My Heart Was Volcanic: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe" [2010] by James Spada Author Poe agrees to mentor a young student, who soon becomes enamored of Poe's sickly wife and enmeshed in Poe's cycles of depression and alcohol and opium. Kindle Edition from Pond Street Press [8/2010] for $7.95 CreateSpace 8½x5½ pb [8/2010] for $12.95 |
"My Clockwork Muse (The Poe Files Mysteries)" Kindle Edition [11/2011] by D.R. Erickson
http://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Muse-Files-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B00694ZHXG/
"Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe [3/2012] by Harry Lee Poe
http://www.amazon.com/Evermore-Edgar-Allan-Mystery-Universe/dp/1602583226/
"Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe" [DUE Aug 2012] by Scott Gustafson (Author, Illustrator)
http://www.amazon.com/Eddie-Lost-Youth-Edgar-Allan/dp/1416997652/
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"The Tell-Tale Start: Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book One" [YA novel 2013] by Gordon McAlpine, Illustrations by Sam Zuppardi Identical twins Edgar & Allan Poe (great-great-great-great grand nephews of 'the' Edgar Allan Poe) are wrongfully expelled for cheating on a test; then their black cat, Roderick Usher, goes missing; the real Poe and his boss Will Shakespeare communicate clues 'from beyond' which helps the boys solve the case. Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin Publng [1/2013] for $10.99 Viking Juvenile 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2013] for $10.87 |
 | "Edgar Allan Poe's Petersburg: The Untold Story of The Raven In The Cockade City" historical novel [2013] by Jeffrey Abugel Historical fiction based on Edgar's 1836 honeymoon in Petersburg, Virginia with his 13-year-old bride Virginia Kindle Edition from History Press Library [2/2013] for $9.99 History Press Library 9x6 pb [2/2013] for $19.99 History Press Library 9x6 hardcover [2/2013] for $29.95 |
 | "Once Upon A Midnight Eerie: Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book Two" [YA novel 2014] by Gordon McAlpine, Illustrations by Sam Zuppardi The boys are hired to play young Edgar Allan Poe in a movie being filmed in New Orleans, where someone tries to kill them; they are helped by co-star twins Em & Milly Dickinson, by their ghostly forebear, and by a pair of real ghosts. Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin Publng [4/2014] for $9.78 Viking Juvenile 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2014] for $13.53 |
 | "The Pet and The Pendulum: Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book Three" [YA novel 2015] by Gordon McAlpine, Illustrations by Sam Zuppardi Last book of the trilogy: the showdown takes place in an old mansion right outside Baltimore . . . Kindle Edition from Viking/Penguin [4/2015] for $7.99 Puffin Books 7¾x5 pb [4/2016] for $7.59 Viking BFYR 8½x5¾ hardcover [4/2015] out of print/used |
 | "To My Beloved Heart: The Last Journey of Edgar Allan Poe" novel [2018] by James Marchiori Fictional account of Poe's outer journey to Europe in 1834 – the shipwreck, the desparate travel across Europe, to Venice, Italy – and the inner journey to redeem his soul . . . Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [12/2018] for $3.99 indep 9x6 pb [12/2018] for $10.70 |
 | "The Raven's Tale" YA novel [ages 12 & up; 2019] by Cat Winters Kindle Edition from Amulet Books [4/2019] for $9.99 Harry N. Abrams 8½x6 hardcover [4/2019] for $11.69 |
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