[PW] ? - Novel about a man obsessed with Poe

[Daphne Drewello]

Lisa Smith wrote

 The plot is about a man who's obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe or
thinks he is the reincarnation of Poe. He embarks on
a journey to Poe landmarks. Eventually, it's revealed that
the man has this obsession because he's trying to escape
the traumatic history of his real life.

  This is probably too late to be the book your patron
remembers but there is

_The Crow: Quoth the Crow_ by David Bischoff
(Harper Paperbacks, 1998)

According to a review on Amazon:

Book Description
William Blessing is obsessed with Edgar Allen Poe. Like Poe, he is a writer 
of dark fantasy. And like Poe, he has powerful enemies. One of them pretends 
to be a friend, even as he plots to murder William and steal his wife. 
Blessing's only hope is to learn the truth about his "friend" before...
But this is the realm of the Crow, where the grave is the doorway to the 
truth. William must walk through it to discover Poe's final secret. Then, 
and only then, with the help of a dark-winged "Raven," can he return to feed 
on the human carrion who raped his wife and slaughtered his soul.



Daphne Drewello

Alfred Dickey Library

Jamestown, ND