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.

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.

" The journal was never produced before Poe's death.

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.

A favorite target of Poe's criticism was Boston's then acclaimed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was often defended by his literary friends in what would later be called " The Longfellow War ".

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.

Poe's success in cryptography relied not so much on his knowledge of that field ( his method was limited to the simple substitution cryptogram ), as on his knowledge of the magazine and newspaper culture.

The Poe Toaster's last appearance was on January 19, 2009, the day of Poe's bicentennial.

Harrison argues that the first to set out a satisfactory resolution of the paradox was Lord Kelvin, in a little known 1901 paper, and that Edgar Allan Poe's essay Eureka ( 1848 ) curiously anticipated some qualitative aspects of Kelvin's argument:

Interpreting this standard nowadays is problematic, since the expected length of " one sitting " may now be briefer than it was in Poe's era.

* 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.

One of the suspected writers of that hoax, Richard Adams Locke, was Poe's editor at the time " The Balloon-Hoax " was published.

The Pacific was crossed in three days by unmanned Japanese " fire balloons " in 1944, exactly 100 years after Poe's story.

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.

Charles Baudelaire, a noted French writer who translated Poe's works into French and who was largely inspired by him, said that the building on the site of the Old Jacobin Club had no gates and, therefore, no inscription.

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.

* 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.

According to the show, her brother is Poe De Spell, who was transformed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar – this is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ".

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.

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 copy was made by William Abbott Pratt circa 1854 from an original he made two weeks before Poe's 1849 death.

Local legend in Charleston says that the poem " Annabel Lee " was also inspired by Poe's time in South Carolina.

A number of books in the 2000s have chronicled Southern rock's rich history, including Randy Poe's Skydog-The Duane Allman Story, Gene Odom's Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock and Rolling Stone writer Mark Kemp's Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race & New Beginnings in a New South.

Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and the South Seas ( 1836 ) by explorer Jeremiah N. Reynolds was a heavy influence on Poe's novel.

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.

Scholars, including Burton R. Pollin and Richard Wilbur, suggest that the character of Augustus was based on Poe's childhood friend Ebenezer Burling or on Poe's brother William Henry Leonard Poe, who served in South America and elsewhere as a sailor aboard the USS Macedonian.

" 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 ".

Perhaps softened by his wife's death, John Allan agreed to support Poe's attempt to be discharged in order to receive an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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

Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe's writing " falls into vulgarity " by being " too poetical "— the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.

In 1875, a book-length French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven " included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé.

At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".

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.

Both films claimed to have been " suggested by " Poe's story, but neither bears any resemblance to the tale aside from the presence of a black cat.

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.

( Poe's anger at The Sun paper is chronicled in the 2008 book " The Sun and the Moon " by Matthew Goodman.

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 " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe's short story " A Descent into the Maelström " tells the story of a man who survived his ship being drawn into and swallowed by Moskstraumen.