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The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Countryman Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 6, 2014
384 pages ISBN: 1581572212 EAN: 9781581572216 Kindle: B00JGZYRT0 Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror
fiction!
Edgar Allan Poe was
an oddity. His life was odd, his literature is odd, his
legacy is odd. Actually, his legacy is the oddest part about
him. In Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan
Poe, J. W. Ocker explores Poe's strange physical
legacy along the East Coast and across the ocean by touring
Poe's homes, examining artifacts from his life--locks of his
hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, the bed
where his wife died--and traveling to the many memorials
dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe.
Along the way, Ocker
meets Poe fans from a range of backgrounds and
professions--actors, museum managers, collectors, writers,
professors, businessmen, sculptors, historians--who have
dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his
legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travel diary
that follows the afterlife of the poet, author, and critic
who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre
of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with an
unrivaled mastery over the macabre that has made the genre
what it is today
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