Winters told Bustle she has been a fan of Poe's writing since she was 12 years old. But his plans are derailed when a dark Muse - a macabre creature designed to lead artists down a road of failure and contempt - emerges from the shadows and demands one thing of the budding horror writer: "Let them see me!" When the novel begins, Poe is 17-years-old and counting down the days until he can leave behind his foster family, attend university, and marry his beloved Elmira Royster. The Raven's Tale, out Ap, mixes fact and Gothic fantasy in its telling of the story of teenage Edgar Allan Poe. (Spookily, however, his cause of death remains unknown.) In her forthcoming young adult novel, author Cat Winters turns her attention to the years before Eddy became Edgar Allan Poe. If you're a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, you probably already know that his real life was just as interesting as (though less eerie than) the stories he penned.
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