Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

While traveling alone from Richmond, Virginia, to New York City, Poe disappeared for nearly a week. When seen again he was terribly drunk and nearly dead in Baltimore. In the hospital, four days later, after periods of raving delirium, he died. The immediate cause of death given was congestion of the brain. At first no one seriously doubted that Poe died from drunken debauchery. However, Poe adherents suggested many theories of a physical nature about precipitating causes but no one has seroiusly probed the mystery of the missing week . . . until now.

Author: John Evangelist Walsh
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 05/05/2000
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.26w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780312227326

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 199

About the Author

John Evangelist Walsh is the author of more than a dozen books of history and biography, includingDarkling I Listen: The Last Days and Death of John Keats.