The Washington Post, March 19th, 1995
A strange and troubled man, Edgar Allan Poe, a man obsessed with death but a genius nonetheless. His stories, written in the first half of the 19th century, enthrall readers today. Indeed, if Poe were alive, he might be producing "The X-Files" or writing scripts for "Tales From the Crypt." Washington documentarian Karen Thomas had made films about Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, and she thought she was tackling an easier project when she set out to make "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul" (Wednesday at 9 on PBS's "American Masters"). "Little did I kno...
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