The story about Edgar Allan Poe in Poe’s Daughter, Pym’s Soul is not the expected story found in other places. Using real people from Poe’s life, like John Lofland, Armistead Gordon, and George Lippard, we see the influences presented by others on how Poe continued to develop changing attitudes about the world around him throughout his life, and begin to see a clearer portrait of the inner man, as well as an assertion of the actual cause of the author’s death. Poe’s daughter, who is portrayed as a real person in the novel though never portrayed directly, serves as a vehicle into Poe’s afterlife as a custodian, using elements of the supernatural, that lead to an outcome different than that of actual history.