A NOVEL BY E.P. MARCELLIN, AUTHOR OF RISE
Poe: The Prism
History left a
week-long hole in Edgar Allan Poe's life.
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How did Edgar Allan Poe die?
On an election day in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a Baltimore gutter, in cheap clothes that were not his own. Where he had spent the missing week, no one ever learned. Through his final night he called one name, over and over, and no one has ever explained it: Reynolds.
This is his confession.
Two years earlier, in a cottage grief has emptied, Poe builds an apparatus of copper and mirrors to do what no writer before him has dared: isolate the seat of genius itself, and make Edgar Poe the greatest name in the history of the written word. The mirrors oblige him. What they give back is company.
Flung across the years into his own tales made flesh, Poe finds each one changed: crueler than he wrote it, inhabited, and waiting for him. A murder in Paris he committed on paper, years ago. Worse in London. Worse after. And every road, every case, every forged page signed in his name bends toward Baltimore, toward a gutter, toward an October night he has already been shown.
He knows how his story ends. What he does about it is the story no one knows.
From the first page
The crows came back to the apple tree at dusk, as they always did, and by now I let them watch. They had kept their vigil over the cottage since the first hard frost, a congregation of small black judges roosting in the bare boughs, and I had come to think of them as the only mourners honest enough to stay the whole season through.
POE: THE PRISM, CHAPTER ONE
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A supernatural Gothic novel
For readers of The Pale Blue Eye, The Shadow of the Wind, The Terror, and What Moves the Dead. A confession, a puzzle, and a haunting, told in Poe's own voice, the only one that could carry all three.
A Winning Adaptation
POE: THE PRISM began as a television pilot, and the script has been honored across the industry’s major competitions. The novel is the story at full depth: every room, every era, every confession the screen could only glimpse.
What readers say about E.P. Marcellin
From verified reader reviews of RISE, her latest novel:
★★★★★
“Marcellin writes with power and clarity... a poet’s eye for detail... gods and grief feel equally real. It stays with you for a long time after you read it.”
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★★★★★
“Marcellin really knows how to draw you into a world. It’s as if you know the characters face-to-face. I can’t wait for her next book.”
Amazon review of RISE
★★★★★
“A stunning book that will have you up way past your bedtime... characters that are so relatable and utterly human... beautifully written!”
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About E.P. Marcellin
E.P. Marcellin is a storyteller, though she thinks of herself as a narrative architect: she constructs tales designed to outlast trends and keep readers up far too late. Her award-winning fantasy novels, several of them Reader’s Choice Award winners, include RISE, Seeds of Fire, Element Keepers, and The PenDragon Anthology. Raised in West Africa, with a BA in Creative Writing and Art and a well-worn passport, she draws her storytelling from world religions, history, and the beautifully complex mess of human nature.
POE: THE PRISM is her turn to the supernatural Gothic: the unsolved death of Edgar Allan Poe, and the week history cannot account for.
