The Port-Wine Stain
- Authors: Norman Lock
- Series: Book 3 in the American Novels series
- Genres: Historical
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- Rating: 3.3 based on 8 reviews
- Release Date: June 14, 2016
- Print length: 224 pages (Paperback)
About the book
In the third installment of The American Novels series, Norman Lock tells the tale of a young man from Philadelphia named Edward Fenzil. Set in the winter of 1844, Fenzil becomes entangled with two influential figures of the grotesque imagination of the nineteenth century: the surgeon and collector Thomas Dent Mutter, and the renowned writer Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil fights against the forces trying to take over his identity, including his own sinister doppelganger, he descends into madness, ultimately losing his sanity and his narrative to someone else.
The Port-Wine Stain is a gothic thriller that delves into themes of possession, identity, and storytelling - themes that Edgar Allan Poe himself would have appreciated.
Norman Lock, a multi-award winning author, is known for his novels, short stories, poetry, and scripts for stage, radio, and screen. Residing in Aberdeen, New Jersey, he is currently working on the upcoming installments of The American Novels series.
Praise for this book
[Norman Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.
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