Proceedings on the Occasion of Laying the Corner Stone of the New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Philadelphia

Proceedings on the Occasion of Laying the Corner Stone of the New Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Philadelphia
Author: Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781342873446

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The Port-Wine Stain

The Port-Wine Stain
Author: Norman Lock
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2016-05-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1942658079

A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story. In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent Mütter, a surgeon and collector of medical “curiosities,” and Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelgänger, he loses his mind and his story to another. The Port-Wine Stain is a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.