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Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Tim Simpson
Narrated by: Mark Goodwill
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Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe

By Tim Simpson

He was America’s first true master of the macabre—yet his own life was a story more mysterious than any he ever wrote.

From the shadowed streets of Richmond to the rain-slick alleys of Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe walks again in this sweeping historical novel that blurs the line between genius and madness, love and obsession, life and death. Told with cinematic detail and unwavering historical accuracy, Eureka follows the poet through his restless years as soldier, critic, and husband—haunted by visions no one else can see, pursued by demons both real and imagined.

As fame lifts him toward literary immortality, the same brilliance that defines him begins to destroy him. Friends turn to rivals, his pen becomes a weapon, and the city that once celebrated him watches as he vanishes into legend.

Based on authentic letters, eyewitness accounts, and lost medical testimony, Eureka: The Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a gothic odyssey through the 19th-century world that birthed America’s darkest voice—and the final mystery even he could not solve.

“Between the pen and the grave lies the truth he could never stop writing.”

©2025 Tim Simpson (P)2025 Tim Simpson
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