The Port-Wine Stain [Paperback]

[Norman Locks fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights. NPR

In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent M?tter, a surgeon and collector of medical curiosities, and Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelg?nger, he loses his mind and his story to another.

The Port-Wine Stainis a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.

Norman Lockis the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.

Norman Lockis the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He has won The Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award,The Paris ReviewAga Khan Prize for Fiction, and writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.

In the third American Novels series book, a young surgical assistant faces his doppelg?nger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a lost Poe story.

The American Novels series features freestanding volumes in which award-winning author Norman Lock engages with the works and worlds of canonical nineteenth-century American writers. Each book offers a wholly original, compelling narrative that deepens our understanding of lóˇ