Poe-Land
The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
Seiten
2017
Countryman Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-58157-221-6 (ISBN)
Countryman Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-58157-221-6 (ISBN)
Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical!
Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction.
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 who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction.
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 who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2017 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Woodstock |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 525 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58157-221-2 / 1581572212 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58157-221-6 / 9781581572216 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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