Fuqua, Jonathon Scott, Steven Parke, and Stephen John Phillips. In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe.  New York, N.Y. Vertigo, 2002.

This graphic novel is made up of photographs and multimedia artwork instead of drawings.  

It starts off as a man who comes across a journal that might or might not have been Poe’s. It could be a fraud. Poe has been dead about 150 years by the time this story takes place.  Quickly the story moves into a view of what the journal says. It implies that Poe attempted to have an affair with Maria Clemm, his mother-in-law.  Distraught, Poe makes a pact  with the ghost of his father and demons who agree to help him as a writer. Eventually, it turns into an incestous love triangle. 

Poe is quite miserable from the beginning of this. The man portraying him through the series of photographs, Damon Marko, looks to be about the age Poe would have been near death.  He is constantly talking to the wraiths.  The words seem even more formal than Poe’s writing, but it does seem to try an emmulate the style.  Poe is doing a lot of drinking and having fits of madness.