A Quiet Madness

<p>Edgar Allan Poe lives once again within the pages of John Isaac Jones' new work of historical fiction.</p><p><br></p><p>His time - 1810-40s America; Lewis and Clark have returned; the Monroe doctrine takes effect the War of 1812; Andrew Jackson's tempestuous presidency; the train the steamship and the graphite pencil were still being improved; the Mexican-American War the trail of tears the California gold rush. </p><p><br></p><p>His loves - His frail devoted stepmother who tried to protect him against his cruel stepfather; Jane Stanard his stepmother's best friend who initiated him first into poetry then into manhood; the violet-eyed mysterious Lenore whose death inspired <em>The Raven</em>; Virginia Clemm his first cousin and great love of his life whom he married one day after her 13th birthday.</p><p><br></p><p>His genius - Edgar Allan Poe short story writer who penned the horror classics The Tell-tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado; author of the poems The Raven and Annabel Lee and the man who single-handedly created the detective mystery genre with Murders in the Rue Morgue.</p><p> </p><p>These pages deliver a compelling portrait of one of the greatest men of letters who ever lived.</p><p><br></p>