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 ".

New villains created for the show include Ma Beagle, mother of the Beagle Boys, and Poe De Spell, Magica's brother who has been transformed into a raven.

Two decades of spoken word and performance art include highlights such as Hal Willner's Poe Show at St. Anne's Episcopal Church, De Sade / Burroughs / Poe with Sean Lennon, Steve Buscemi and Richard Hell at The ISSUE Project Room, Lou Reed's The Raven with Laurie Anderson and Fisher Stevens at St. Ann's Warehouse and Let's Eat: Feasting on the Firesign Theatre at Royce Hall with John Goodman, Todd Rundgren and Ralph Carney.

He began his career as a child actor using his real name Ariel Muhlach, appearing in the 1976 film, Babaing Hiwalay Sa Asawa and the 1978 film, May Lalaki sa Ilalim ng Kama. He also appeared in the 1980 film starring Fernando Poe Jr. and Christopher De Leon in the movie, Aguila His popularity soared in teeny-bopper roles upon using his new screen name, Aga Muhlach in movies such as Bagets ( 1983 ) and Super-Wan-Tu-Tri ( 1986 ), one of the films he co-starred with Janice de Belen, with whom he would have a son ( Luigi Muhlach ; married to Patty Petil ).

Ronald Allan Poe y Kelley ( August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004 ), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor.

By July 28, Poe wrote to the publishers asking for the return of his manuscript because, as he said, he had " made a better disposition of my poems than I had any right to expect ".

Olaf also mentions that " at the time " Mr. Poe was better known under his stage name, implying that Poe also works as an actor.

He was the father of the late Ronald Allan K. Poe, better known as Fernando Poe, Jr., who was also a famous actor and icon.

* In an essay entitled " The Literati of New York City ", Edgar Allan Poe wrote of George B. Cheever: " He is much better known, however, as the editor of The Commonplace Book of American Poetry, a work which has at least the merit of not belying its title, and is exceedingly commonplace ".

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Burton ’ s fictional detective relies on practical methods-dogged legwork, knowledge of the underworld and undercover surveillance-rather than brilliance of imagination or intellect, but it has been suggested this story may have been known to Poe, who in 1839 worked for Burton.

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism.

Poe spent the last few years of his life in this small cottage in the Fordham, Bronx | Bronx, New York. One evening in January 1842, Virginia showed the first signs of consumption, now known as tuberculosis, while singing and playing the piano.

That home, known today as the " Poe Cottage ", is on the southeast corner of the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road.

For example, it is now known that Poe was not a drug addict.

In fact, " Metzengerstein ", the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.

Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States.

Poe may have been inspired, at least in part, by a prior journalistic hoax known as the " Great Moon Hoax ", published in the same newspaper in 1835.

Anne " Annie " Decatur Danielewski, professionally known as Poe, is an American singer and songwriter.

Better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe ( e. g., " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), " The Mystery of Marie Roget " ( 1842 ), and " The Purloined Letter " ( 1844 ).

House of Leaves was accompanied by a companion piece ( or vice versa ), a full length album called Haunted recorded by Danielewski's sister, Anne Danielewski, known professionally as Poe.

Its first mayor after this status was Dr. John Joseph Moran, known as the attending physician when Edgar Allan Poe died.

A damaged daguerreotype copy of one of the nine original daguerreotypes known to have been made of Edgar Allan Poe was featured on the PBS show Antiques Roadshow and appraised at US $ 30, 000 to $ 50, 000.

The epigraph "" ( Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness ) attributed by Poe to Seneca was not found in Seneca's known work.

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.

Among his best known works are the feature films Alice ( 1988 ), Faust ( 1994 ), Conspirators of Pleasure ( 1996 ), Little Otik ( 2000 ) and Lunacy ( 2005 ), a surreal comic horror based on two works of Edgar Allan Poe and the life of Marquis de Sade.

It is known today especially for the publication of " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe may have known bricklaying through personal experience.

Thomas Ollive Mabbott ( July 6, 1898 – May 15, 1968 ) was an American professor and scholar of literature, perhaps best known for his research on writer Edgar Allan Poe.

" Poe, in a review of her work, wrote that she was " absolutely without rival, we think, either in our own country or in England.

His full name is reportedly either, Allan Fernando Poe ( or Allan F. Poe ), Fernando Reyes Poe ( Fernando R. Poe ), or Allan Fernando Reyes Poe.

Frankenstein draws heavily on a forged document feel, as do Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and many of the works of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe and H. G.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

She also has a raven named Ratface in the comics ( in the DuckTales TV series, Ratface has been replaced with a raven named Mr. Poe, who is said to be Magica's bewitched brother ).

Most significantly this included: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ; The Crucible by Arthur Miller ; The Cask of Amontillado, The Premature Burial, The Pit and the Pendulum & The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe ; Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ; The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ; Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens ; The Monkey's Paw by Guy de Maupaussant ; The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ; The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft ; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Lottery by Shirley Jackson ; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

") The second passage Welles reads ( which comes before Fall of the House of Usher ( Prelude ), seems to be a partial paraphrase or composite from nonfiction by Poe, chiefly from a collection of poems titled " Poems of Youth " by Poe ( contained in " Introduction to Poems – 1831 " in a section titled " Letter to Mr. B -----------"; the " Shadows of shadows passing " part of the quote comes from the Marginalia.

Stevenson acknowledged this influence: " I broke into the gallery of Mr. Poe ... No doubt the skeleton my novel is conveyed from Poe.

In 1857, British government representative Mr. O ' Riley visited Karenni chief Kay Poe Du to set up an official relationship between the Karenni and the British.

In 1857, the British representative Mr. O ' Riley came to Karenni and signed an alliance agreement with Karenni chief Kay Poe Du.

In the same year, the Secretary of the Frontier Areas Administrative Board, Mr. H Stevenson, arrived at Loikaw and met with Karenni leaders, Gobi Turee from Bawlake, Saw Shwe from Kyeh Poe Gyi, Thaik Ba Han from Mobye, and Sao Shwe Hon and Saw Thein from Kantarawaddy to discuss the future of Karenni State after Burma became independent.

Another source of inspiration may be from an actual couple by the name Mr. and Mrs. Luke Usher, the friends and fellow actors of his mother Eliza Poe.

In The Bad Beginning, they are sent to live with a distant relative named Count Olaf after briefly living with Mr. Poe, a banker in charge of the orphans ' affairs.

The Baudelaires routinely try to get help from Mr. Poe, but he, like many of the adults in the series, is oblivious to the dangerous reality of the children's situation.

An " advanced computer " appears in The Austere Academy, which, while outdated by current standards, is nonetheless more advanced than the earliest computers ; this computer's exact functions are never stated, as its only use in the book is to show a picture of Count Olaf ( which both Mr. Poe and Vice Principal Nero believe will keep him away ), but in the companion book The Unauthorised Autobiography, one of the letters describes the computer as capable of an advanced act of forgery.

After being taken away from their horrible guardian Count Olaf, ( who tried to steal their fortune ), the three Baudelaire children are taken by Mr. Poe to their new guardian, Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, who lives on Lousy Lane, which smells like horseradish.

According to Mr. Poe, Dr. Montgomery is the Baudelaire's " late father's cousin's wife's brother.

However, as they are leaving the estate, Stephano's car crashes into that of Mr. Poe.

Stephano blows his cover when he informs Mr. Poe that Sunny is not in danger as the viper is harmless ; he had previously claimed he knew nothing about snakes.

Violet shows up and presents Mr. Poe with the evidence ( among other things, a powder puff and the syringe used to inject snake venom into Monty ).

Mr. Poe asks Stephano to display his ankle, where the tattoo of an eye should be.

Mr. Poe wipes the ankle with a handkerchief, revealing the eye.