For Edgar by Sheldon Rusch

[MommyRussell]

i recommend to any reader to read For Edgar by Sheldon Rusch, if you love Edger Allen Poe and thriller/mystery and detective you will get into this book. Here is what the back cover says "A killer who calls himself The Raven honors the macabre tales of Edgar Allan Poe through a series of slayings. Special Agent Elizabeth Taylor Hewitt tracks The Raven's telltale signs, leading her into a mystery that binds them both in an ingenious nightmare." Came out in 2006 with 311 pages..please find this book and read it. I loved it.

[Lisalovecraft]

Sounds interesting. I am a huge Edgar Allan Poe fan. This book sounds like that TV show the Following, which has a similar premise.

[MommyRussell]

I have never heard of that TV Show so I will have to look into that

[TLGabelman]

I love Poe but he must have been a real downer at diner parties!

[Lisalovecraft]

Well, TL, Poe was actually quite the charmer at literary soirées. While he lived in New York ,everybody who was anybody wanted him at their parties! He was very well educated and articulate. He was also quite the ladies man.

The strange fascination—the unmatched charm of his conversation—consisted in its genuineness. Even Dr. Grisvvold, who has studiously represented him as cold, passionless, and perfidious, admits that his conversation was at times almost "supra-mortal in its eloquence;" that "his large and variably expressive eyes looked repose or shot fiery tumult into theirs who listened, while his own face glowed, or was changeless in pallor, as his imagination quickened his blood or drew it back frozen to his heart."

-Sarah Helen Whitman, Edgar poe and his critics, loc 274, Internet archive edition

Sorry for the lecture, but I have recently been reading quite a bit about Poe's life! There are many misconceptions about him. His life is even more fascinating than his stories!

[TLGabelman]

@Lisalovecraft I dont think you were lecturing me, were you?

Ive not read anything on his life just his own works and they are darkly fascinating so I suppose that he scares me a little. I do have a book somewhere about his wife....Ill have to read that soon.

[TLGabelman]

@Lisalovecraft I dont think you were lecturing me, were you?

Ive not read anything on his life just his own works and they are darkly fascinating so I suppose that he scares me a little. I do have a book somewhere about his wife....Ill have to read that soon.

[TLGabelman]

@Lisalovecraft I dont think you were lecturing me, were you?

Ive not read anything on his life just his own works and they are darkly fascinating so I suppose that he scares me a little. I do have a book somewhere about his wife....Ill have to read that soon.

[Lisalovecraft]

Ha, TL, I wasn't *trying* to sound lecture-ish, but I was worried the post would come off that way! He is a little scary. He was an enigma even in his own time. What is the book you have called?

[TLGabelman]

Ill have to look in my stacks later and get back to you. Im in carpool right now lol

[Lisalovecraft]

Ok.. Can't very well look up books in the carpool lane..how would you explain that to a traffic cop? And thanks!!

[TLGabelman]

@Lisalovecraft
The book is called Mrs.Poe by Lynn Cullen (fiction)
I am moving it up in my to read queue.

-- 04 Feb 2015, 08:22 --

Also Im a fan of The Following
Love me some Bacon!

[gali]

I have read a few stories of Poe and liked it. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Lisalovecraft]

@TLGabelman thank you, I am going to put it on my "want-to-read" list!! looks interesting!