Nikolaj Frobenius

I will show you fear

On a summer´s day in 1841, the author Edgar Allan Poe and the editor Rufus Griswold meet at a Philadelphia hotel.Both are ambitious, cutting-edge figures on America´s young literary scene. Their relationship develops quickly into something more substantial than the contrasts between them might have seemed to promise – and certainly much more than they themselves expected. Attraction, envy, and contempt tug them back and forth in a game that increasingly looks like a case of professional and personal possession.
Meanwhile a little man, pale as a corpse, trails them through the streets of America´s East Coast cities, trailing a vapour of blood and fear.