The catalog of the Edgar Allan Poe exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York from October 2013 to January 2014, Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul, reproduces about half of the hundred images on display, adding eight more illustrations. Drawn from three collections, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, and the private collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, the exhibition, which was co-curated by Declan Kieley of the Morgan Library and Isaac Gewirtz of the Berg Collection, balanced three significant aspects of Poe: his writings, illustrations of his work, and his influence on other writers. The same balance is followed in the exhibition catalog, edited by Isaac Gewirtz, with an introduction by the novelist Paul Auster, a memoir by Poe collector Susan Jaffe Tane, and an important essay by Gewirtz.
In the opening essay, Auster burnishes Poe's reputation by reminding...
