Beyond Fiction Book Club - A Mystery of Mysteries by Mark Dawidziak

Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak.  Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk.  If you need help acquiring a book, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org.  

We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes.

It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tales of terror. What was the cause of his untimely death, and what happened to him during the three missing days before he was found, delirious and “in great distress” on the streets of Baltimore, wearing ill-fitting clothes that were not his own?

In a compelling dual-timeline narrative alternating between Poe’s increasingly desperate last months and his brief but impactful life, Mark Dawidziak sheds new light on the enigmatic master of macabre.