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Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of
horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and
"The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have
derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his
success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as
signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of
Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own
mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities
to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's
life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur
psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself
meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe
family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and
describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies.
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