Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer

Since Edgar Allan Poe sees things that are not there, hears voices others cannot, and feels utterly at home in the realm of human darkness, he is the perfect detective to unravel cases of the murderous and the macabre. In “Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer” Poe’s old friend, P. T. Barnum, implores the wordsmith to take his wife, Virginia “Sissy” Poe, to Boston to secure an urgent medical cure (and while he is there to please acquire the showman some particularly garish crime-scene evidence for his American Museum in Manhattan!). The crime in question is the recent butchery of a beautiful young shop girl. Once in Boston, Poe quickly surmises the sensational murder is only one in a string of inexplicable killings, centered in shadowy pool of deceit and ghoulish depravity.