G. W. Thomas
Presents
THE
GHOSTBREAKERS
EDGAR ALLAN POE (1978) by Marc Olden
The first person to use Edgar Allan Poe in a horror story was Manly Wade Wellman in "When It Was Moonlight" (Feb. 1940) in Unknown. While Poe is doing research he uncovers a vampire and saves a man. I don't consider Poe in this story a ghostbreaker in the proper sense. It is Marc Olden's Poe in Poe Must Die that qualifies here. Poe and his friends consciously seek out a sorcerer across two continents, facing magic and solving a mystery. The book won an Edgar for First Novel. The children's writer AVI would later write a straight mystery with EAP in The Man Who Was Poe (1989).
1. Poe Must Die
(1978)
tion to the ghost-