Purloining Poe
By Susan Amper
May 18, 2011There seems to be a growing sub-genre these days of books drawing on the life and/or work of Edgar Allan Poe. Is some profound cultural force at work? I suspect the motives are more commercial. The fact is, Poe conjures—in a way that helps sell books. I don’t fault authors for appropriating Poe. Poe himself…