Every January 19, in the early hours of the morning, the person made a toast of cognac to Poe's original grave marker and left three roses.

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

An example of an early crime / revenge story is the American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe's ( 1809 – 1849 ) tale " The Cask of Amontillado ", published in 1846.

The early loss of his mother and other women, including his wife Virginia, may also have inspired Edgar Poe's often-used literary theme of dying women.

In her explorations of the depiction of African characters in white American literature, Morrison wrote " no early American writer is more important to the concept of American Africanism than Poe " because of the focus on symbolism of black and white in Poe's novel.

An early version of the poem, titled " The Doomed City ", appeared in Poe's 1831 collection simply called Poems.

Poe's boasted that these early poems were superior to most other examples in American poetry.

The Poe Toaster is an unofficial nickname given to a mysterious person ( or more probably two persons in succession, possibly father and son ) who, for over seven decades, paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the stone marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.

Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.

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 ".

" 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 ".

Although Sherlock Holmes is not the original fiction detective ( he was influenced by Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq ), his name has become a byword for the part.

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?

In Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

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.

Nevertheless, the Legrand character is often compared to Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin due to his use of " ratiocination ".

Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), widely considered the first detective fiction story.

Doyle once 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?

Many tropes that would later become commonplace in detective fiction first appeared in Poe's stories: the eccentric but brilliant detective, the bumbling constabulary, the first-person narration by a close personal friend.

Fyodor Dostoevsky called Poe " an enormously talented writer " and favorably reviewed Poe's detective stories.

Poe's detective character C. Auguste Dupin and his sidekick the unnamed narrator undertake the unsolved murder of Marie Rogêt in Paris.

Poe's best known fiction works are Gothic, a genre he followed to appease the public taste.

Poe's work also influenced science fiction, notably Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Poe's novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket called An Antarctic Mystery, also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields.

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

" 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.

" The Tell-Tale Heart " is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's most famous short stories.

Black characters in fiction during this time period were not unusual, but Poe's choice to give him a speaking role was.

Like Poe's novel, Verne attempted to present an imaginative work of fiction as a believable story by including accurate factual details.

Catalepsy is also depicted in " Berenice ", thus becoming one of the recurrent themes in Poe's fiction.

The essay states Poe's conviction that a work of fiction should be written only after the author has decided how it is to end and which emotional response, or " effect ," he wishes to create, commonly known as the " unity of effect.

Poe's critics complained about his " German " tales, to which he replied, ' that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul '.

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.

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.

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.