TONY MAGISTRALE is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Advising at the University of Vermont. He has published extensively in the field of Gothic Studies including two books on Poe, The Poe Encyclopedia (Greenwood 1997) and Poe's Children: Connections Between Tales of Terror and Detection (1999). He is also the author of The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Greenwood 1992).

• ForewordPrefaceNotes Toward a BiographyThe Contribution and Legacy of Edgar Allan PoeThe Art of PoetryVampiric Love StoriesTales of Psychological Terror, Homicide, and RevengeThe Origins of the Detective TaleSelected BibliographyIndex

TONY MAGISTRALE is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Advising at the University of Vermont. He has published extensively in the field of Gothic Studies including two books on Poe, The Poe Encyclopedia (Greenwood 1997) and Poe's Children: Connections Between Tales of Terror and Detection (1999). He is also the author of The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Greenwood 1992).

• ForewordPrefaceNotes Toward a BiographyThe Contribution and Legacy of Edgar Allan PoeThe Art of PoetryVampiric Love StoriesTales of Psychological Terror, Homicide, and RevengeThe Origins of the Detective TaleSelected BibliographyIndex

TONY MAGISTRALE is Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Advising at the University of Vermont. He has published extensively in the field of Gothic Studies including two books on Poe, The Poe Encyclopedia (Greenwood 1997) and Poe's Children: Connections Between Tales of Terror and Detection (1999). He is also the author of The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape (Greenwood 1992).

• ForewordPrefaceNotes Toward a BiographyThe Contribution and Legacy of Edgar Allan PoeThe Art of PoetryVampiric Love StoriesTales of Psychological Terror, Homicide, and RevengeThe Origins of the Detective TaleSelected BibliographyIndex