Edward Fenzil, a young Philadelphian, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination--Thomas Dent M鋎tter, a collector of medical curiosities, and Edgar Allan Poe., Mid-19th-century Philadelphian surgical assistant Edward Fenzil falls under the sway of his mentor, a collector of medical curiosities, and the writer Edgar Allan Poe, both of whose powerful wills challenge his sense of identity as he struggles with his own malevolent doppelg鄚ger. By the award-winning author of The Boy in His Winter. Original.