Mrs. Poe

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Struggling to support her family in mid-19th-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.

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Interesting story submitted by Impy on June 25, 2014, 3:44pm If you're a Poe fan, you might enjoy this fictionalized account of his relationship with Frances Osgood, a fellow writer. Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Osgood were acquainted in real life, and even wrote poetry for each other, which caused quite a scandal since they were both married to other people at the time. Cullen speculates about what might have happened between these two purported lovers, and adds an element of mystery as well. If she doesn't do anything to quell the rumors surrounding this historical pair, at least she makes an entertaining story out of them.