“Bram Stoker Award winner [Christa] Carmen weaves a captivating web of psychological suspense in her latest spine-tingler…For gothic mystery fans, this is a treat.” ―Publishers Weekly
“Incorporating a love of all things Poe (both the horror and romantic parts), Bram Stoker award-winning author Carmen has written an intense, creepy psychological thriller that is a perfect cozy read for spooky season.” ―Booklist
“Beneath the Poet’s House is a brilliant, gripping novel filled with secrets and danger. Christa Carmen captures the haunted magic of Providence and introduces one of the most fascinating and singular characters I’ve ever encountered. The novel shimmers with questions of what is real and what is imaginary, helped by the extraordinary setting of a writer’s house with a tragically romantic rose garden, a cemetery, and ghosts in love. Shocking, tender, and wildly compelling, Beneath the Poet’s House will keep you racing through the pages all night long.” ―Luanne Rice, Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of Last Night
For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Daughters of Block Island.
Based in part on the real-life romance between Sarah Helen Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe and set in the actual house at which Poe first spotted Whitman tending her rose garden under a midnight moon in 1845, Christa Carmen’s compulsively readable new novel of suspense, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE (Thomas & Mercer trade paperback original; December 10, 2024), sees protagonist Saoirse White navigate both a personal haunting and the lingering ghosts of much-revered public figures, as well as the ramifications of men who treat women as stepping-stones on their way to artistic greatness.
Vanessa Lillie, USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, raves, “Haunting and gorgeously told, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE brings new life to the tumultuous romance and compelling lives of Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman, all within a modern psychological suspense with a riveting plot that will enthrall readers.” And Katrina Monroe, author of Through the Midnight Door, cheers, “With lush, haunting prose to rival any classic, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE twists patriarchal gothic tropes and gives new breath to old stereotypes in a story that is at once a historical reckoning, a desperate love story, and an intriguing mystery. Like a crooked finger beckoning the reader down a castle’s winding staircase, Carmen’s writing is impossible to resist. Mark my words: she will soon find her place among the gothic greats.”
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