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In March, we recovered from the events of fall 2001 and decided to present our first event showing our diversity:The Jack Kerouac 80th Birthday Party.
In August, we opened a new room in our house of many mansions called
"Poe's Poetry Corner."
The corner will present the work of contemporary poets.
In September, we presented PoeForward's "Dead Girls" in honor of one of Poe's major themes. The exhibit includes the life stories and pictures of historical dead girls and contemporary female goths.
In the late Summer/early Fall, we opened up new sections regarding Poe's Influence, Poe's friends and defenders, Poe's enemies and critics, and Poe's Women.
In the fall, Louis Marlowe became our first Poet in Residence. In our new Poetry Corner, we presented his new "evolving epic poem" titled "Xtian Love: Liars and Phonies; Gossips and Hypocrites." (Exhibit closed.)
Poe Books 2002
by Harold Schechter
Mass Market Paperback - Oct 29, 2002
From Publishers Weekly:
In 1844 Edgar Allan Poe and his wife, Sissy, recently moved to New York, visit P.T. Barnum's American Museum only to become enmeshed in a grisly series of murders, in this lively historical whodunit. Curiosity about a dubious display of relics from the last stand at the Alamo of Davy Crockett, with whom he solved another set of murders a decade before in the author's first Poe mystery, Nevermore (2001), lures the truth-loving writer into a meeting with the redoubtable showman. Barnum has an explanation for that and everything else he offers up to entertain the public. " `I know perfectly well that ordinary gorillas have no tails,' Barnum said, `But that's what makes mine such a remarkable specimen!' " When Barnum's diorama of an infamous murder a woman, hands amputated, a rose in her mouth is re-created in flesh and blood, he hires Poe to help him find the killer. In the course of the chase every corner of the bizarre museum becomes familiar, and the cast of human oddities inside and out, such as Morris Vanderhorn ("it's as if he's got two faces, split right down the middle"), seems a perfect foil for the master of the grotesque and arabesque. Some readers may find the narrative, as if by Poe, a bit much "Somewhat stung by Sissy's unflattering characterization of me as a `fuddy-duddy,' I opened my lips with the intention of delivering a spirited reply" but Schechter has fun with it (a highlight: Poe's encounter with a contemporary porn novel). You pay your nickel and you get entertained.
by Jonathon Scott Fuqua, Stephen John Phillips, and Steve Park Hardcover - Oct 1, 2002
Book Description:
Edgar Allan Poe was driven by demons.
A poet and a storyteller, he was haunted by dark moods and darker thoughts, resulting in disturbing stories of high complexity, supernatural terror and exquisite mental turmoil.
But were the demons that drove him real?
That possibility is explored in the 96-page VERTIGO hardcover IN THE SHADOW OF EDGAR ALLAN POE — written by award-winning novelist Jonathan Scott Fuqua (The Reappearance of Sam Webber) and featuring photographic art by Stephen John Phillips (VEILS, I, PAPARAZZI) & Steve Parke (I, PAPARAZZI).
When a lost diary purported to be written by Poe falls into the hands of Sterling Tuttle, the Poe scholar uncovers a side of the writer that few people ever suspected. In the diary, the voice of the long-dead author reaches out from beyond the grave to give a chilling account of his tortured life. Haunted by the ghosts of his tragic past and the burden of relentless alcoholism, Poe soon finds that his creativity may depend on actual demons who have an unsavory agenda of their own…
Based on some of Poe’s published works, IN THE SHADOW combines actual events in the writer’s life with Fuqua and Parke’s speculation on the nature of his muse, creating a mysterious drama wherein tragedy and fate intersect. With chilling photographs that invoke the fear that Poe wrestled with, Park & Phillips break the traditional boundaries of framed panels and create a graphic novel that explodes with original, unforgettable visuals.