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

In these essays, he explains that his novels combine fiction and history to place ordinary individuals ( like his novelistic protagonists Arthur Mervyn or Edgar Huntly ) into situations of historical stress ( like the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 or settler-Indian violence on the Pennsylvania frontier after the Walking Purchase ) in such a way as educate his audience about virtuous behaviors and the historical causes and conditions of individual actions.

Edgar Bronfman declared: " It is not only a matter of the Auschwitz convent, but the broader implications of historical revisionism in which the uniqueness of the Holocaust and the murder of the Jewish people is being suppressed.

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

More so than the Deftones, many of Team Sleep's themes and lyrics are fantastical and imaginative in nature, drawing from such literary sources as Edgar Allan Poe and historical events like the Jonestown Massacre.

* Hugh Edgar, butler, The Edwardian Country House, 2002 British historical recreation TV series

The most prominent historical character within Cloudstreet is the Nedlands monster, whose real name is Eric Edgar Cooke, a serial killer whom the book states single-handedly " made Perth into a real city ".

The Outlaw of Torn is a 1927 historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five part serial in New Story Magazine from January to May, 1914.

Edgar Pangborn ( February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976 ) was an American mystery, historical, and science fiction author.

From there Edgar continued writing in science fiction and in other genres as well, including the historical novel Wilderness of Spring and the contemporary courtroom drama The Trial of Callista Blake.

The volume which grew from this conference, Reconstructing Languages and Cultures ( 1992, edited by Edgar Charles Polomé and Werner Winter ), points to the worldwide impact of Lehmann's work on Indo-European and historical linguistics.

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

His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

Edgar Allan Poe was an important reinterpreter of Gothic fiction.

* Several literary critics have noted the influence of phrenology ( and physiognomy ) in Edgar Allan Poe's fiction.

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.

The works of Edgar Allan Poe also helped define both the science fiction and the horror genres.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).

His future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, as well as Edgar Allan Poe and the horror and science fiction films he watched, such as Godzilla, and films made by Hammer Film Productions, the works of Ray Harryhausen and Vincent Price.

* The Venus series, science fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The idea of intelligent Martians was popularized by Percival Lowell and in fiction, especially by Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter ( Barsoom ) series, H. G.

Other pulp fantasy fiction — such as Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom series and Leigh Brackett's Sea Kings of Mars — have a similar feel to sword and sorcery, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, it is usually described as planetary romance or sword and planet, and considered to fall more in the area of science fiction.

Some fans have had a rather negative response to Betancourt's writing style and lack of characterization, and consider his work to be more of fan fiction, but Betancourt states that one of his primary motivations for writing the new books was to keep Roger Zelazny's books and stories alive and in print and to prevent them from fading into obscurity, much like how other authors have extended the stories and ongoing popularity of Robert E. Howard's Conan, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series.

* Solar System in fiction: Real planets of the Solar System have that have been utilized or characterized in a variety of fictional ways ( e. g. Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom, a fictional version of Mars ).

In English fiction there are three well known stories that helped popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: " The Gold-Bug " by Edgar Allan Poe, " Wolfert Webber " by Washington Irving and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

** Huga Wells-Erb Heinsturbury, a science fiction writer whose unwieldy adopted name is derived from the names Hugo Gernsback, H. G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs ( E. R. B ), Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon and Ray Bradbury.

Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.

For the most part, they were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and were associated with Symbolism and / or Aestheticism.

Edgar Rice Burroughs ' A Princess of Mars ( 1912 ) is also sometimes seen as a major work of scientific romance, and Sam Moskowitz referred to him in 1958 as " the acknowledged master of the scientific romance ," though the scholar E. F. Bleiler views Burroughs as part of the " new development " of pulp science fiction that arose in the early 20th century.

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2010, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, and film published or produced in 2009, are:

He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, and a Queen's Award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre.

Goulart has been nominated twice for the Edgar Award, once for his 1970 science fiction novel After Things Fall Apart.

In 1991, Coppola and Warner Bros. began discussing the project and two others involving the life of J. Edgar Hoover and the children's novel The Secret Garden.

It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, starring Donald Calthrop, Benita Home and Fred Raines, made by British Lion at their Beaconsfield Studios.

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.

In the novel, Lucie Ashton and the nobly born but now dispossessed and impoverished Edgar Ravenswood exchange vows.

As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

The film was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney ( uncredited ) from Goldsmith's novel of the same name and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.

Later works include Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century psychological novel Tristam Shandy, while in the nineteenth-century it has been suggested that Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " foreshadows this literary technique .< ref >< http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 1785800 / The-Tell-Tale-Heart >.</ ref > Because of his renunciation of chronology in favor of free association, Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers Sont Coupés ( 1887 ) is also an important precursor to the stream of consciousness narratives of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and Joyce is believed to have known this work.

John Carter was the lead character in the first novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, set on a fictionalized version of Mars known as Barsoom.

In 1932, he appeared in a remake of the 1929 film The Flying Squad ( based on the novel by Edgar Wallace ), reprising the role originated by future-Hitchcock regular John Longden.

The novel War Trash ( 2004 ), set during the Korean War, won a second PEN / Faulkner Award for Jin, thus ranking him with Philip Roth, John Edgar Wideman and E. L. Doctorow who are the only other authors to have won the prize more than once.

* The brig Grampus in Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

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.

The play was adapted to a novel, and a film adaptation, directed by Edgar Lewis, was made in 1915.