{"product_id":"the-port-wine-stain-9781942658061","title":"The Port-Wine Stain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sway of two luminaries of the nineteenth-century grotesque imagination: Thomas Dent Mütter, a surgeon and collector of medical “curiosities,” and Edgar Allan Poe. As Fenzil struggles against the powerful wills that would usurp his identity, including that of his own malevolent doppelgänger, he loses his mind and his story to another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Port-Wine Stain\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic psychological thriller whose themes are possession, identity, and storytelling that the master, Edgar Allan Poe, might have been proud to call his own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norman Lock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43356445409398,"sku":"9781942658061","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e02e88d2-462e-491a-bf45-e2717ab0002f.jpg?v=1777482172","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/the-port-wine-stain-9781942658061","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}