The Digital Remains of Thomas Poe
A Novel

About this book:

When digital archivist Helena Marsh is hired to catalog the encrypted estate of Thomas Poe—the internet’s most brilliant, reclusive essayist—she expects hard drives full of drafts and server logs. She doesn’t expect a README file addressed to her by role, dated six years before she was hired. She doesn’t expect audio recordings of her own nervous tics, captured in a London café she visited once. And she certainly doesn’t expect to find her middle name—buried in a defunct blog she abandoned a decade ago—hardcoded into the metadata of a dead man’s quarantine folder.

Arthur Vance, the man behind the pseudonym, didn’t just leave a literary legacy. He built a trap. Every nested directory, every timestamped email, every scrap of scraped forum data was arranged for a single pair of eyes: hers. As Helena traces the breadcrumbs through Poe’s labyrinthine archive—uncanny predictions, surveillance logs, and a trail of physical notebooks the estate lawyers can’t find—she realizes the archive isn’t a record of his life. It’s a blueprint for hers. And the final algorithm is still running.

Smart, unsettling, and paced like a keylogger’s heartbeat, *The Digital Remains of Thomas Poe* is a literary techno-thriller about the ghosts we leave in the cloud, the strangers who curate them, and what happens when the dead refuse to stay offline.