The Fall of the House of Poe

Through both a feminist and psychoanalytic analysis, "The Fall of the House of Poe" attempts to explain Poe's morbid treatment of the female characters in his short stories by examining his own disturbingly tragic experiences with women throughout his short life. Ultimately this book elucidates unequivocally the acute psychological motivations for Poe's profoundly psychoanalytic tales of horror and imagination.