The godfather of horror was a disaster with women—shocking exactly no one.
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 relationships. Dramatised inserts take us into the minds of Poe and his women through their own letters, journals and published writing.
Writing
Denise Mina's crime-writer lens cuts through Poe's myth.
Production
Dramatised letters feel genuinely invasive, appropriately.
Director
Louise Lockwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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