Poe's Lighthouse: All New Collaborations with Edgar Allan Poe

Edited by Christopher Conlon.

New stories by Edgar Allan Poe?

Impossible, you say?

Not at all. Admittedly, Mr. Poe is in no condition to be writing much these days — which is why in this anthology he’s getting a little help from his friends. Friends like Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Carole Nelson Douglas. John Shirley. Mike Resnick. Some two dozen in all.

These writers were given a task: to take a little-known, unfinished story fragment which Poe wrote near the end of his life and turn it into a complete story — in any way they wished. The only rule was that they use Poe’s language, his images, his ideas — that they truly work together with the master.

Today’s best authors. Joining forces with Edgar Allan Poe himself.

Posthumous collaborations for the ages — collected here in this extraordinary anthology.

Since the Poe fragment’s original publication some sixty years ago, a few authors have attempted to complete it — but this collection marks the first sustained gathering of talent to work on the piece. Editor Christopher Conlon provides an Introduction which explains the background of Poe’s unfinished tale and includes its original, unaltered text, while the completed stories reflect the amazing variety of the writers themselves — from lighthearted fantasy to gothic horror, from romantic adventure to hard-edged science fiction.

This book, then, is a celebration of the art of storytelling — hosted by two dozen dazzling talents, with Mr. Edgar Allan Poe as Guest of Honor.

Care to join the party?

The lamp is lit. The door is open. Step in...

Welcome to Poe’s Lighthouse.

Contents:

• Introductionby Christopher Conlon
• Blind Eye by John Shirley
• The Riches There That Lie: A Midnight Louie Past Life Adventure by Carole Nelson Douglas
• The Watcher at the Window by Mort Castle
• A Literary Forgery by George Clayton Johnson
• So This Guy Walks Into a Lighthouse— by Kage Baker
• Deep Into the Darkness Peering by Elizabeth Engstrom
• A Passion for Solitude by Earl Hamner
• A Muse with Burning Eyes by Mike Resnick and B. D. Faw
• The Seventh Day by Hilary Tham
• There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by Nick Mamatas
• Last Writes by Scott Nicholson
• The Flames Beneath the Light by Tim Lebbon
• Fourth Avenue Interlude by Richard A. Lupoff
• The Dead Lantern by Michael A. Arnzen
• Fisherman's Delight by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Darkness, and She Was Alone by Christopher Conlon
• Salamander Scrimshander by Edward Lodi
• I've Been Waiting for You by Barry Hoffman
• Inside the Iron Maiden by Steve Schlich
• MS Found in a Minidrive by Rudy Rucker
• The Tragic Narrative of Arthur Bedford Addison by William F. Nolan
• The Days of Other Light by Paul Di Filippo
• A New Interpretation of the Liggerzun Text by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro