“A captivating and intensively researched tribute to the famous poet and his gothic muse. Against the tapestry of young Poe’s real-world struggles and tortured relationships, Winters weaves a macabre thread of surrealism through meter and rhyme—at times so dreamy in its rhythms and imagery it teeters between hypnotic and horrifying. I will never look at my own muse the same again, nor will I dare deny it.”

— A. G. Howard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stain and the Splintered series

“Winters’s smart, silvery, slithering prose finds beauty in the grotesque—and what is art if not that?”

— Daniel Kraus, co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Shape of Water

“Spellbinding, imaginative, whimsical, and unforgettable. A rattling good tale that is worthy of the master poet himself.”

— Dwight L. MacPherson, author of The Imaginary Voyages of Edgar Allan Poe, co-host of The Raven Lunat