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Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

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Description for Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe Paperback. Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white halftones, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 520.

Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him.

Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Woodstock, United States
ISBN
9781581572216
SKU
V9781581572216
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About J. W. Ocker
J. W. Ocker is the Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land. He runs the website Odd Things I’ve Seen, where he chronicles his visits to various oddities of culture, art, and history. His writing has been featured in Rue Morgue magazine, CNN.com, American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty, and Studies in Australian Weird Fiction. Ocker lives in Nashua, NH.

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