A harrowing tale of psychological obsession and dark fantasy, The Poe papers was inspired by an actual love affair in Poe's life. Fifty years after Poe's death, a dedicated connoisseur is determined to possess Poe's letters to his beloved "Annie"--an old woman, living in a crumbling mansion with her spinster daughter and haunted by the spirit of the long-dead poet. Reviewers called The Poe Papers terrifying, macabre, fascinating, brilliant--Alfred Hitchcock material, a Gothic novel in the tradition of Poe's own works.