Biographers and critics often suggest that Poe's frequent theme of the " death of a beautiful woman " stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his wife.

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

Biographers and critics often suggest Poe's frequent use of the " death of a beautiful woman " theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his own life, including his mother Eliza Poe and his foster mother Frances Allan.

Biographers and critics have often suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, his wife, and his foster mother Frances Allan.

Biographers and critics have often suggested that Poe's obsession with this theme stems from the repeated loss of women throughout his life, including his mother Eliza Poe, his foster mother Frances Allan and, later, his wife Virginia.

" Al Aaraaf " was published in its entirety only once in Poe's lifetime, though some critics believe Poe never actually completed the poem because Poe implied it was originally intended to have four parts or 400 lines.

Modern critics continue to debate the significance of Eureka and some doubt its seriousness, in part because of Poe's many incorrect assumptions and his comedic descriptions of well-known historical minds.

Poe had complained for a decade that the paper's Great Moon Hoax had plagiarized ( by way of Locke ) the basic idea from The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall, one of Poe's less successful stories which also involved similar inhabitants on the moon.

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 ).

Similar to the studies suggested in Poe's short story " Ligeia ", this lore may be about the occult or black magic.

It consisted of two monologues ; the first was an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " and the second was a piece written by Berkoff called ' Dog ', which was a comedy about a loud-mouthed football fan and his dog.

The term was popularized in the 1896 US Presidential Election, when William McKinley supporters took to wearing gold lapel pins, gold neckties, and gold headbands in a demonstration of support for gold against the " silver menace ", though the term's original use may have been in Edgar Allan Poe's 1843 story " The Gold-Bug ," about a cryptographic treasure map.

The book begins when the Baudelaires are in Mr. Poe's office, looking at The Daily Punctilio ( a poorly written newspaper full of lies about the Quagmires and Count Olaf ).

Modern biographer Daniel Stashower compared Poe's stunt with the story " The Imp of the Perverse ", in which Poe wrote about " an earnest desire to tantalize a listener ...

* In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Pit and the Pendulum " ( 1842 ), a " LaSalle " rescues the narrator by grabbing his arm as he is about to fall into a pit.

Around July 2, 1849, about four months before Poe's death, the author unexpectedly visited Sartain's house in Philadelphia.

A similar reference had already been established in the German versions of Magica comics, where her raven is called " Nimmermehr " (" Nevermore "), referring to the most recognizable keyword from Poe's poem.

Poe's early detective fiction tales featuring C. Auguste Dupin laid the groundwork for future detectives in literature.

One of Poe's darkest tales, " The Black Cat " includes his strongest denouncement of alcohol.

* In 1997, a compilation of Poe's work was released on a double CD entitled Closed on Account of Rabies, with various celebrities lending their voices to the tales.

" The Balloon-Hoax " is like one of Poe's " tales of ratiocination " ( such as " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ") in reverse: rather than taking things apart to solve a problem, Poe builds up fiction to make it seem true.

Like many of Poe's tales, " The Masque of the Red Death " has also been interpreted autobiographically.

Of Poe's three tales of ratiocination, " The Purloined Letter " is generally considered the best.

The title of the album is taken from a popular title for a collection of Poe's macabre tales of the same name, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, first published in 1908 and reprinted many times since.

This story, though it is inferior to them at their best, is in the tradition of Poe's analytical tales and the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The story is often compared with Poe's " tales of ratiocination " as an early form of detective fiction.

While the title of Nikolai Myaskovsky's 1910 tone poem, " Silence ", may have been borrowed from Tyutchev, the inspiration is credited to one of Edgar Allan Poe's tales.

He is obsessed with the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and it is his detachment from reality when reading them that leads to his delusions that he is in fact a tortured artist, deprived of the woman he loves, mirroring certain parts of Poe's " The Raven ".

* Poe ( 2002 ), based on Edgar Allan Poe's tales.

Of Poe's three tales of ratiocination, " The Mystery of Marie Rogêt " is generally considered the least successful.

" 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 ".

One theory, dating from 1872, indicates that cooping – in which unwilling citizens who were forced to vote for a particular candidate were occasionally killed – was the cause of Poe's death.

Poe's writing reflects his literary theories, which he presented in his criticism and also in essays such as " The Poetic Principle ".

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said, " Each Poe's detective stories is a root from which a whole literature has developed .... Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?

One of the most notable of these was Lizzie Doten, who in 1863 published Poems from the Inner Life, in which she claimed to have " received " new compositions by Poe's spirit.

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.

The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

The epigraph was not Poe's invention ; such an inscription had been reported, no later than 1803, as having been composed with the intention ( possibly facetious ) of having it placed on the site, and it had appeared, without attribution, as an item of trivia in the 1836 Southern Literary Messenger, a periodical to which Poe contributed.

The island also appears briefly in one of the chapters of Verne's novel The Sphinx of the Ice Fields, which he wrote as an unathorized sequel to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

* The main English source of information on Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii and Herberstein is Marshall Poe's publications, particularly Herberstein and Origin of the European Image of Muscovite Government, which cites many other contemporary publications such as Giorgio, Fabri and Campense.

Poe's most notable role was in the episode Magica's Shadow War, in which a trapped Magica sent him out to find help in one scene.

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.

In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

* The story was adapted, combined with elements from Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ", by American director Orson Welles as a planned episode for the Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead, which was to have starred Welles as Prince Prospero and Oja Kodar as Fortunata.

Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tale " The Adventure of the Dancing Men " are examples of stories which describe the use of frequency analysis to attack simple substitution ciphers.

In Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " he offers criticism denouncing " the excess of the suggested meaning ... which turns into prose ( and that of the very flattest kind ) the so-called poetry of the so-called transcendentalists.

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.

His theory of etyms is developed in his magnum opus, Zettels Traum, in which an elderly writer comments on Edgar Allan Poe's works in a stream of consciousness, while discussing a Poe translation with a couple of translators and flirting with their teenage daughter.

" It was published in 1868, after Poe's mysteries The Murders in the Rue Morgue ( 1841 ) which introduced the famous locked-room paradigm, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt ( 1842 ), and The Purloined Letter ( 1845 ).

It is also reminiscent of a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's story " The Pit and the Pendulum ," in which a prisoner is freed when rats gnaw through his bonds.

" McLuhan ( 1951 ) found inspiration in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, " A Descent into the Maelstrom ," in which a shipwrecked sailor is trapped within a whirlpool, but escapes death by finding the pattern hidden within the vortex.