Edgar Allan Poe's San Francisco: More Terror Tales of the City

EDGAR ALLAN POE’S SAN FRANCISCO: MORE TERROR TALES OF THE CITY, is the long-awaited sequel to those terror tales previously conceived. A gothic horror suspense thriller, perfectly faithful to the style and spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, still set in contemporary San Francisco, but derived more from Poe’s more esoteric flights of fancy, fantasy, and satire. Once a berserk hypnotic subject precipitates the destruction of a hot air balloon hovering over Napa Valley, it is soon revealed that a Satanist, Docktor Anton Vankirk, has continued the hypnotic experiments of Dr. Vincent Valdemar, his former mesmeric partner killed previously at the city’s celebrated Coit Tower. At a memorial service for Dr. Valdemar, conducted at the city’s solemn Columbarium, Valdemar’s sole direct descendant and heir—his crippled daughter, Elenora—vows revenge against Nicolino by threatening to paint his beloved, Lenore, to death in a bewitched portrait. Elenora seduces Nicolino to retrieve her father’s bequest, a hidden parchment likewise coveted by the avaricious Vankirk. From the soaring crown jewel of the Transamerica Pyramid to the lofty belfry of the San Francisco Ferry Building clock tower, this compact but potent tale of Poe takes terror to untried and untrodden heights! Read more