Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe s sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter. With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe s life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as The Raven and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters.
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