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Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women

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Crime author Denise Mina investigates the life and work of one of the world's greatest horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe. The relationships between Poe and the women in his life - mother, wife, paramour and muse - were tenuous at best, disastrous at worst, yet they provided inspiration and stimulus for some of the most terrifying and influential short stories of the early 19th century. Travelling between New York, Virginia and Baltimore, Mina unravels Poe's tortuous and peculiar rela...


Info about Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women

Studio(s): British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Originally Released: Oct 21, 2010

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History