{"product_id":"poes-raven-amy-wertz-9798257677021","title":"Poe's Raven: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe and the Raven King","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaya Valdez has built a career giving voice to the forgotten dead. Through her podcast, she resurrects lost writers and unsolved literary mysteries, turning silence into story. But when she begins investigating the final days of Edgar Allan Poe, she uncovers something that was never meant to be explained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt first, it's just another case-missing time, conflicting accounts, a death that refuses to settle into history. Then the patterns begin. Ravens gathering where they shouldn't. Archival records that contradict themselves. Witnesses who either disappear or refuse to speak. And a message, written in Poe's own hand, promising answers no one has ever survived to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Maya digs deeper, her audience grows-and with it, something else. Something ancient, buried beneath Baltimore for centuries. A presence the Keepers of the Plutonian Shore have spent generations containing. They call it the Raven King. It does not hunt. It waits. It listens. And it feeds on attention, on grief, on the act of remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe more Maya investigates, the more she becomes part of the story she's trying to tell. Her voice begins to change. Recordings appear that she never made. And when the people closest to her start to die, she realizes the truth too late: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe hasn't been uncovering a mystery.\u003cbr\u003eShe's been waking it up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, drawn into the catacombs beneath Westminster Hall, Maya must confront the entity wearing Poe's face-and the grief it carries. To stop it, she must do the one thing no one before her has ever managed: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet it go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause the Raven King does not fear death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt fears being forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePOE'S RAVEN \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis a literary horror novel about attention as invocation, grief as a system, and the cost of being heard in a world where some stories don't just haunt us-they listen back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Fisherman\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Wertz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257677021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Amy Wertz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665597141247,"sku":"9798257677021","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poes-raven-amy-wertz-9798257677021","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}