Under this interpretation, Poe is seeking refuge from the dangers of the outside world, and his portrayal of himself as the only person willing to confront the stranger is emblematic of Poe's rush towards inescapable dangers in his own life.

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.

Returning to her own world, Next uses the Prose Portal to release her Aunt Polly and imprison Jack Schitt in the text of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ".

The libretto was his own, based on Poe, and the work was to be a companion piece to another short opera ( Le diable dans le beffroi ) based on Poe's " The Devil in the Belfry ".

Baudelaire was also inspired by Poe's novel in his own poetry.

It is uncertain if it is an authentic portrayal of Poe's own method.

Leigh M. Lane's Finding Poe ( 2012 ) speculates the role Poe's own works, including " The Lighthouse ", may have played in his mysterious death.

The story is especially interesting as it was published only six months after Poe's own great hoax, " The Balloon-Hoax ," which many believed to be true despite its elements of the odd.

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 ).

Baudelaire's translations became definitive renditions of Poe's work throughout Europe.

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.

* " The Light-House " ( 1849 ) – Poe's last incomplete work

* 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.

* Internet searches yield some other sites with fragmentary information, although a lot is derived from Poe's works, and most of the rest from Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii-but since this was the major work of the time in that field, this is not surprising.

Especially influential here has been the work of Jacques Lacan, an avid reader of literature who used literary examples as illustrations of important concepts in his work ( for instance, Lacan argued with Jacques Derrida over the interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Purloined Letter ").

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.

* V. H. Belvadi's 2012 short film, Telltale, credits Poe's " The Tell-tale Heart " as its inspiration and borrows several lines as a nod to the original work.

Baudelaire was very influential in introducing Poe's work to Europe and his translations became the definitive renditions throughout the continent.

The work is mentioned briefly at the end of Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Man of the Crowd.

" The Fall of the House of Usher " shows Poe's ability to create an emotional tone in his work, specifically feelings of fear, doom, and guilt.

" The Fall of the House of Usher " is considered Poe's most famous work of prose.

* " My Lost Lenore " is a song by the gothic metal band Tristania, inspired by Poe's work and included in their 1998 album Widow's Weed.

Poe's most significant source was the explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds, whose work Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas was reviewed favorably by Poe in January 1837.

In contrast, the renowned 20th century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who admitted Poe as a strong influence, praised the novel as " Poe's greatest work ".

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

Much work has been done by scholars to identify all of Poe's allusions, most notably by Thomas Ollive Mabbott, though other scholars suggest that the names throughout the poem should be valued only because of their poetic sounds.

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.

This was the first translation of Poe's work to a language other than English and marked Poe's introduction to France.

Another work by Moore, The Loves of the Angels, inspired Poe's idea of uniting mortal and immortal love.

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?

One interesting trend among imitators of Poe, however, has been claims by clairvoyants or psychics to be " channeling " poems from Poe's spirit.

Like the narrator in Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart ", the narrator of " The Black Cat " has questionable sanity.

Verne even has a character mention Poe's story in From the Earth to the Moon.

It has also been suggested that Poe's " pit " was inspired by a translation of the Koran ( Poe had referenced the Koran also in " Al Aaraaf " and " Israfel ") by George Sale.

* Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ( 1838 ), Chapter 15, has a detailed history and description.

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.

Each weapon card has a certain point value, and certain weapons are worth more points when used in certain rooms ( for example, the trowel is worth extra points when used in the wine cellar, an allusion to Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ").

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.

An example is " The Mad Trist " in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story-within-a-story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in " the Mad Trist " begins happening in " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

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

* Cliffs Notes on Poe's Short Stories has a page on The Purloined Letter

Former United States Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur has suggested that the tale is an allegorical representation of Poe's poem " To Science ".

This source has been identified as Robert T. P. Allen, a fellow West Point student during Poe's time there.

Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that " Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor " and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor " was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d ' Orléans ".

One night, however, Evelyn calls Dave to tell him that she has been released and is moving to Hawaii ; she quotes Edgar Allan Poe's " Annabel Lee " in reference to her obsessive affection for him.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Imp of the Perverse " ( 1845 ) has the following:

This unreliability is often developed by the author to demonstrate that the narrator is psychologically unstable, like the narrator of Poe's Tell-Tale Heart, has an enormous bias, is unknowledgeable, ignorant or childish, or is perhaps purposefully trying to deceive the audience.

It is unclear whether Poe and Reynolds ever met, but legend has it that shortly before Poe's mysterious death, in his delirium Poe called out the name " Reynolds "; though the incident is possibly apocryphal, one theory says Poe meant Jeremiah Reynolds, reflecting the explorer's influence.