A biography of the troubled nineteenth-century author with a discussion of his prose and poetry which greatly influenced prominent artists and writers throughout the world.
Retold in graphic novel form, the narrator visits Roderick Usher, who is dying under the spell of a family curse, and witnesses the final destruction of the Usher family.
Contains four critical essays that examine nineteenth-century American author Edgar Allan Poe's works from a historical perspective, and includes biographical and bibliographical essays, and an illustrated chronology.
