Overview

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.

Top Cast

Denise Mina

Presenter

Jeff Mash

Poe (voice)

Lucille Sharp

Virginia Poe

Anita Vettesse

Frances Sargent Osgood

Tamara Kennedy

Sarah Helen Whitman

Lauren Marcus

Eliza Poe

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Lorenzo Bajrami

Baby Poe