and James Russell Lowell and Edgar Allan Poe of nineteenth century American letters.

For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Recalling his earlier Edgar Allan Poe material, Woolfson saw a way to combine his and Parsons ' respective talents.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

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The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

The Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name " Edgar Allan Poe ", though they never formally adopted him.

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed " Ludwig ".

The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.

Edgar Allan Poe photographed circa 1849

The historical Edgar Allan Poe has appeared as a fictionalized character, often representing the " mad genius " or " tormented artist " and exploiting his personal struggles.

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

This plaque marks the approximate location where Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

In the June 6, 1840 issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe bought advertising space for his prospectus: " Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a Monthly Literary journal to be edited and published in the city of Philadelphia by Edgar A.

Better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe ( e. g., " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), " The Mystery of Marie Roget " ( 1842 ), and " The Purloined Letter " ( 1844 ).

In 1841, the cave became a legend, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote " The Mystery of Marie Roget " about an event that took place there.

The earliest fully-fledged example of this type of story is generally held to be Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue, which appeared in 1841.

* Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 )

* The epigraph of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ) is from Browne's Hydriotaphia ,( Chap. 5 ): " What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture ".

Hoffmann ( 1819 ), was an influence on The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe ( 1841 ).

Although Moonstone is often seen as the first detective novel, Edgar Allan Poe's short story mysteries, The Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1841 ) and The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ) were published before The Moonstone.

* July 31-James David Edgar, politician ( b. 1841 )

One of the earliest uses of the Scandinavian word ( malström or malstrøm ) was by Edgar Allan Poe in his story " A Descent into the Maelström " ( 1841 ).

The first is the Edgar Allan Poe story " A Descent into the Maelström " ( 1841 ).

Sir James David Edgar, ( August 10, 1841 – July 31, 1899 ) was a Canadian politician.

Similar wording appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story, The Bargain Lost, although not at the very beginning.

* Histoires extraordinaires ( 1968 ) ( segment Toby Dammit, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ")

Edgar failed: it was a bad story and Fontana's libretto was poor.

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

An adventure story that may have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs's later books.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Introduced by Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a " true crime " story.

A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " ( 1846 ).

" The Black Cat " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

* Pit and the Pendulum-Fully searchable text of Edgar Allan Poe's story.

* Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area.

* 1837: Silence – A Fable is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1837 ( see: bibliography ).

Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story " Metzengerstein ".

" The writer and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Curt Gentry has noted that a similar story about Hall was planted in the media through the FBI's secret COINTELPRO campaign of disruption and disinformation against radical opposition groups.

Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story " The Cask of Amontillado " invokes the image of the serpent as a symbol for petty vengefulness.

Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story " The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion " has two souls in the afterlife discussing the destruction of the world by a comet that removed nitrogen from earth's atmosphere ; this left only oxygen, resulting in a worldwide inferno.

The Fall of the House of Usher ( 1928 ) is a short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, " The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe.

( This episode may have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Hop-Frog ".

Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Masque of the Red Death " is based at a masquerade ball in which a central figure turns out to be his costume.

The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Descent into the maelstrom ," the narrator, looking down on the whirlpool from a mountain, refers to the water as " the howling Phlegethon below ," signifying its danger and coiling effect.