Death’s Door
- by April White
- Novella
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Death’s Door” by April White (Corazon Entertainment, May 2020).
Ren (Alexandra Reynolds) owns a neighborhood bar in Baltimore. One evening, Edgar Allan Poe stumbles in—not an early Halloween reveler in costume, but the real thing. In the course of their acquaintance, both Ren and Poe learn more about themselves. Did I mention that Ren is descended from a freed slave mother and a white slave-owning father? And that Poe was an anti-abolitionist?
—Tandy Ringoringo
The notepaper was faded with age, and although I’d never seen it before, I knew he’d hidden it there the night I met him again, so many, many years before.
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- Time Periods
- Time Travel Methods
- Innate Time Travelers: The Clocker “family,” although we don’t know whether evolution had some outside help.
- Time Portal: Clockers open a time portal..
- Themes
- Causal Loops: Ren saves Poe in 2020, so he can return to 1849 to save Ren, so she can live to 2020 where she saves Poe, so he can . . ., although (darn it!) Ren doesn’t remember the 1849 meeting until after Poe returns to that time period. .
- Long Life: Ren.
- True Histories: An explanation of Poe’s mysterious disappearance before his death.
- Real-World Tags
- Fictional Tags
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- “Death’s Door” by April White (Corazon Entertainment, May 2020).
- audio reading.
“Death’s Door” by April White (Corazon Entertainment, August 2020).
Indexer Notes
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- Length—Explicitly stated as a novella on the Kindle edition, but actual length may be a bit under 17,500 words.