Edgar Poe and the Frontier Fiend (Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Series #3)

by Harold Schechter

Overview

In this historical murder mystery Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery Museum . During the sweltering summer of 1845, the savage murder of two girls shocks the citizens of Manhattan. Despite the bloody crime often depicted in his own writings, Edgar Allen Poe is just as shaken by this murder unleashed as the panic-stricken public. Suspicion of the killer's identity immediately swirls around Chief Wolf Bear, one of the human attractions at P.T. Barnum's American Museum. Convinced of his innocence, Poe begins his detective work, soon realizing that the city conceals a monster, one with an ever-growing appetite for human prey. As frenzied emotions course through the city, Poe uncovers a dark secret more powerful than anything he could have imagined--one that may reach the upper echelons of politics and privilege. This is literary fiction at its best, blending history, horror, crime and suspense. It was originally published under the title The Mask of Red Death.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016630236
Publisher:	Author & Company
Publication date:	03/28/2013
Series:	Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. As a literary historical novelist, he has also written "Nevermore," "Edgar Poe and the Frontier Fiend" and "Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer." He is the bestselling author of many true-crime works: "Killer Colt," "Fiend" and "Depraved" (which are set in the later 19th century) and also "The Devil's Gentleman," "Bestial," "Deranged," "Deviant," "Fatal," "The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers," "True Crime," "The Serial Killer Files," "Outcry," "Psycho USA" and "The Whole Death Catalog," and is the co-editor of "Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem" and "Panzram: A Journal of Murder." On his more professorial side, he has written, "The Mysterious Way: Individuation in American Literature," "Patterns in Popular Culture," "Popular Culture in the Classroom," "The New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art," "The Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art," "Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment" and "Real to Reel," and is co-editor of "Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest," "American Voices: A Thematic/Rhetorical Reader," "Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems," "Film Tricks: Special Effects in the Movies" and "The Manly Movie Guide: Virile Video & Two-Fisted Cinema."