Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

During his time there, Poe lost touch with Royster and also became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts.

Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes.

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.

Many such depictions also blend in with characters from his stories, suggesting Poe and his characters share identities.

The collection includes many items Poe used during his time with the Allan family and also features several rare first printings of Poe works.

It is open to the public and is also the home of the Edgar Allan Poe Society.

Christian Munch also instructed his son in history and literature, and entertained the children with vivid ghost-stories and tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

The influence of Byronic Romanticism evident in Poe is also apparent in the work of the Brontë sisters.

The works of Edgar Allan Poe also helped define both the science fiction and the horror genres.

It was also collected in Tales ( 1845 ) by Edgar Allan Poe.

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.

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.

" Poe is also considered to have been influenced by William Mudford's The Iron Shroud, a short story about an iron torture chamber which shrinks through mechanical action and eventually crushes the victim inside.

An incense factory is also located in Changangkha, named Poe Nado.

* 1848 — Edgar Allan Poe offers first correct solution to Olbers ' paradox in Eureka: A Prose Poem, an essay that also suggests the expansion and collapse of the universe

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 ).

Poe may also have been drawing upon various references to ravens in mythology and folklore.

Poe also mentions the Balm of Gilead, a reference to the Book of Jeremiah ( 8: 22 ) in the Bible: " Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there?

He also refers to " Aidenn ", another word for the Garden of Eden, though Poe uses it to ask if Lenore has been accepted into Heaven.

A covered bridge is also prominently featured in the story Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by Edgar Allan Poe and a dilapidated covered bridge serves as a major plot point in the 1988 movie Funny Farm.

In the sonnet " To Science " by Edgar Allan Poe, science is said to have " dragged Diana from her car ".

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

His future work would be heavily influenced by the works of such childhood heroes as Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl, as well as Edgar Allan Poe and the horror and science fiction films he watched, such as Godzilla, and films made by Hammer Film Productions, the works of Ray Harryhausen and Vincent Price.

His mixture of science and romance in the last two works furnished a model for many subsequent writers, among them Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe and probably Voltaire.

It is possible also that Poe helped originate science fiction with such stories as ' The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall.

Although Poe wrote this short story before the invention of modern psychological science, Roderick's symptoms can be described according to its terminology.

He encouraged independent thought and supplemented her education with science and adventure books, notable the novels of Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe graduated in 1970, with a degree in political science from Abilene Christian University, where he served as class president, and, in 1973, received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Houston Law Center, where he had participated in the school's honor society.

* Jeffrey Ford ( born 1955 ), fantasy, science fiction, and mystery author and recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Nebula Award, and the World Fantasy Award, among others.

His additional early work in television production ( and occasional writing and directing ) includes shows crime drama Tallahassee 7000 ( 1961 ), western drama The Wild Wild West ( 1965-1969 ), the second season of crime drama Hawaii Five-O ( 1969-1970 ), legal drama Storefront Lawyers ( 1970-1971 ), the final five seasons of western drama Gunsmoke ( 1970-1975 ) as well as its spinoff series Dirty Sally ( 1974 ), legal drama Petrocelli ( 1974-1976 ) for which he was nominated an Edgar Allan Poe Award, and the two science fiction dramas The Fantastic Journey ( 1977 ) and Logan's Run ( 1977-1978 ).

in animal science in 1967 from the University of Kentucky, specializing in equine genetics and following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Thomas Poe Cooper, a former dean of the UK College of Agriculture and a former Acting President of UK.

He wrote on a wide slate of topics ranging from the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Hardy to science fiction and utopian literature.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe was an important reinterpreter of Gothic fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

" 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.

Though their works could not be properly considered zombie fiction, the supernatural tales of Bierce and Poe would prove influential on later writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, by Lovecraft's own admission.

In " The Masque of the Red Death " Poe adopts many conventions of traditional Gothic fiction, including the setting of a castle.

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.

Indeed, Ellery Queen clearly is, after Poe, the most important American in mystery fiction.

Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.

For the most part, they were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, and were associated with Symbolism and / or Aestheticism.

In 1832, Poe began writing short stories – including " The Masque of the Red Death ", " The Pit and the Pendulum ", " The Fall of the House of Usher ", and " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " – that explore previously hidden levels of human psychology and push the boundaries of fiction toward mystery and fantasy.

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2010, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, and film published or produced in 2009, are:

Though the story is often included amongst the short list of detective stories by Poe, " The Gold-Bug " is not technically detective fiction because Legrand withholds the evidence until after the solution is given.

In 1923 he made his literary debut by publishing the mystery story under the pen name " Edogawa Rampo " ( pronounced quickly, this humorous pseudonym sounds much like the name of the American pioneer of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, whom he admired ).

Shin Seinen had previously published stories by a variety of Western authors including Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton, but this was the first time the magazine published a major piece of mystery fiction by a Japanese author.

Both are derived from Edgar Allan Poe stories, which is appropriate as Poe created detective fiction as well as the first private detective character, C. Auguste Dupin.