How does the author use allusion in the novel, Night Kites?

Night Kites, like many of Kerr's works, is filled with literary allusions which create powerful intertextual relationships between the book and the works of Poe, Frost, Emily Bronte, and others. For instance, Nicki's mother was a Poe enthusiast, and Nicki herself, living in the strange gothic atmosphere of Kingdom by the Sea motel, whose name is taken from Poe's poem "Annabel Lee," has some of the haunting quality of a Poe heroine, as well as some of the deadliness.