James McKenna

An Interview with James McKenna: Author of October’s Journey, Winner of the 2023 SPR Book Awards

James McKennaJames McKenna is retired, living in southern Minnesota, and feels it is important for a person to keep active. That being said, he is an author whose style of writing is keenly reminiscent of that style made popular in the 19th century.

Tell us about your book.

My book is a tale about a young 19th century attorney who receives a strange birthday present from a family friend, Edgar Allan Poe, who convinces him to defend a woman and her two grown children who have been arrested for practicing witchcraft. The trial is to be held in an old Puritan […]

2024-04-18T16:52:25+02:00April 18th, 2024|Categories: Interviews|Tags: |

Review: An October’s Journey: Poe’s Final Gift by James McKenna

Luring readers into a carefully crafted tale of supernatural mystery, author James McKenna delivers a profoundly puckish novel in An October’s Journey: Poe’s Final Gift.

On October 1, 1849, on the occasion of his 22nd birthday, Jonathan Brandt’s party is graced and haunted by his father’s old friend “Eddy,” though the world better knows him as Edgar Allen Poe. In addition to his attendance, Poe also presents Jonathan with a macabre gift, an unbelievable story of witchcraft, and an invitation to join Poe on a nebulous (and undeniably dangerous) adventure.

Poe is trying to figure out the ending to […]

2024-04-18T12:35:39+02:00September 5th, 2023|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |
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