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On a spring day in 1841 the American writer Edgar Allan Poe meets Rufus Griswold, a rising editor and critic, at a hotel in Philadelphia. Both are set on making their names in a literary world of fierce competition and poisonous intrigue, where admirers can be as dangerous as enemies. Attraction, envy and disgust drive the two men back and forth in a game that looks more and more like obsession. Meanwhile a small, corpse-pale man trails them through the streets of Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, leaving a reek of blood and horror behind him. Drawn from real events, the novel is also a literary horror story in the line of Poe’s own tales.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

319 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 1840s

First published

2008 by Gyldendal

Author's age

43 when first published

ISBN

9788205358713 (original)