Back cover: The works of Edgar Allan Poe have enthralled and terrified readers for over 150 years. His stories macabre blend of doomed romanticism, gothic melodrama and ghoulish destiny has made him one of crime fiction's greatest authors. Famous for his poems and short stories Poe, who was born in Boston in 1809, laid the foundations for the modern detective story and the psychological thriller. Nevermore brings Poe to a new audience, showcasing some of his most memorable stories. Here Poe's short stories are re-imagined and revived in this vibrant graphic novel anthology, where the cream of modern comics creators are let loose in the playground of Poe's limitless imagination.
When cheerleader Isobel Lanley is assigned to work with goth, Edgar Allen Poe fan Varen Nethers on an English project, she is swept into a horrific dream world that he has created in his mind.
Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . Kennedy , J. Gerald , and Liliane Westerberg ( editors ) . Romancing the Shadow : Edgar Allan Poe and Race . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . Meyers , Jeffrey .
This is a book to love and remember, and every book club in America would be wise to snap it up.
Walter Clarke Fletcher descended from an old New England family, a long line of merchants and ministers; doctors, lawyers; Yale men, Episcopalians; one a colonel in the Continental Army. His grandfather had built a small woolen mill on ...
Isobel, haunted by the memory of Varen, goes to Baltimore where she confronts the dark figure known as the Poe Toaster, succeeds in interrupting his ritual, and discovers a way to return to the dream-world, where she must face a new ...
When a fifteen-year-old Mandrian princess makes a wish in a wizard's circle, she winds up on Earth alone and without the ability and desire to return to home.
Reborn moments after Queen Isabella of Spain orderedher lover's death, Santos accepted eternal life in exchangefor protecting humanity.
IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS MAXIMUM RIDE .
"On September 27, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe boarded a ship in Baltimore Harbor for an overnight voyage to New York City.
This is it: one last incredible, explosive Maximum Ride adventure with an astonishing ending no one could have seen coming.