PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Winters, Cat, author.
Title: The raven’s tale / Cat Winters.
Description: New York, NY: Amulet Books, 2019. | Summary: Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe’s plans to escape his foster family, begin classes at the prestigious new university, and marry his beloved Elmira Royster go awry when a macabre Muse appears with a request.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018046694 | ISBN 9781419733628 (hardback) | 978-1-6833-5486-4 (eISBN)
Subjects: LCSH: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849—Childhood and youth—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849—Childhood and youth—Fiction. | Supernatural—Fiction. | Inspiration—Fiction. | Authors—Fiction. | Richmond (Va.)—History—19th century—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.W76673 Rav 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

Text copyright © 2019 Catherine Karp
Jacket illustrations copyright © 2019 Shane Rebenscheid
Book title lettering by María Belén La Rivera
Book design by Hana Anouk Nakamura

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