A lost literary treasure, love letters by a world-famous writer...written to a woman haunted by his spell for half a century after he died...a young man determined to obtain those letters, and willing to do anything to get them. A harrowing tale of dark fantasy and forbidden passion, The Poe Papers is a Gothic novel in the tradition of Poe's own works.

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.

Nancy Zaroulis is the author of five novels as well as three "Beacon Hill" mysteries published as Cynthia Peale. Her nonfiction work, Who Spoke Up?, a history of the anti-Vietnam War movement, was a New York Times Notable Book.