Title: Edgar Allan Poe's San Francisco: Terror Tales of the City
ISBN: 0943283124
Publisher: Epic Press
Publication Date: August 2005
Genre: Classic Horror
Author Bio: Joseph Covino Jr. is a thoroughly creative, multi-genre novelist--with no pretentions of ever becoming a pompous "author"--who aspires to stay solely a writer who writes epic, cinematic fiction capable of transporting his readers by sensory- and thought-provoking prose to other exciting, entertaining, enchanting, entrancing but untried and untrodden realities. His books include the fabulous romantic-adventure fantasy with authentic traditional insight into Islam, Arabian Nights Lost: Celestial Verses I & II, two parts of an intended trilogy, Frankenstein Resurrected, a literally soul-searching, epic retelling of Mary Shelley's classic masterpiece, Stay Fit(And Hot)For Life, a fitness tract inspired by bodybuilding icon Steve Reeves to whom it pays devoted tribute and his scathing satire of the town embodying political correctness, Berkeley Bashed: Victim's Guide to the Backward, Barbaric, Butt-Ugly Bog. He passionately and steadfastly adores the magnificent city of San Francisco.
Edgar Allan Poe's San Francisco: Terror Tales of the City is a psychological gothic horror suspense thriller perfectly faithful to the style and tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, set in contemporary San Francisco, in which a hypnotist, Dr. Vincent Valdemar, ostensibly undertakes to condition a writer, Nicolino, to copycat the murderous Poe-inspired modus operandi of a notorious serial killer, known as the Scarabus Killer, who stalked San Francisco in times past. Fate unites both characters who coincidentally admire the works of Poe, themes and images of which are liberally interspersed throughout this perversely tantalizing terror tale of Poe, of hypnosis--of the City! What's real and unreal becomes eerily blurred in a shadowy and murky fog as this surreal brew weaves its way through an ethereal cityscape populated by spectral characters: in this ultimate Poe-pourri!
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