In Search of Edgar Allan Poe

Despite a difficult upbringing, Poe discovers his true calling as a writer, and marries his beloved Virginia. He invents the detective genre. He shapes the modern short story.

Poe's young wife suffers a fatal disease, compelling him to write "Masque of the Red Death" and "The Raven." He pioneers science fiction, pens a cosmic prose poem, but dies at 40.