Once Upon A Midnight Eerie by Gordon McAlpine is book two in the Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe series.
This title picks up right where the first left off. Please read the first if you would like a little background. The author does a good job giving you a little bit of history, but if you want more detail into why the boys are being hunted by their nemesis, start with book one.

Once Upon A Midnight Eerie begins with where a Tell Tale Start concluded. The twin twelve year old boys are offered the chance to star in a film by a Hollywood movie director. Their striking likeness to the great late Edgar Allan Poe wins them this singular title role which they will share. They are staring with another set of twin girls who were cast to play Annabelle Lee. This character is also a shared role and is played by Em and Milly Dickinson. Did the last name give it away? It should have. Em and Milly are the great, great, great, great grandnieces of Emily Dickinson. Right away, they clearly have something in common with the Poe twins. However, unlike the Poe twins, the girls are not one hundred percent identical. There is a difference in the eyes. And the personalities differ as well.

So while working on filming, which is taking place in New Orleans, the boys are taking advantage of being tourists. Being from Baltimore, Maryland, it's undoubtedly been a great traveling road trip for the Poe family. They hit the road to rescue their cat, Roderick and ended up in Kansas. Now they are in Louisiana. So they hop on a double decker bus tour and manage to stick with still deciphering codes, this time from a head stone. It's revealed that there is a ghost tour that they instantly sign up for. From there, the boys launch an investigation into who murdered the poor souls, a hunt for a lost journal, lost treasure, and unveiling a new threat.

All the while, the boys have been receiving new coded messages via license plate from their granduncle, who was demoted from the fortune cookie bureau. But the trick is getting those messages to reach the boys in time to warn them that they are not out of danger just yet. ( )