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 ).

T. S. Eliot called Collins's novel The Moonstone ( 1868 ) " the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels ... in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe ", and Dorothy L. Sayers called it " probably the very finest detective story ever written ".

Poe was first stationed at Boston's Fort Independence ( Massachusetts ) | Fort Independence while in the army.

Before entering West Point, Poe moved back to Baltimore for a time, to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm ( Poe's first cousin ), his brother Henry, and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe.

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.

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.

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

Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia ( as well as his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe ).

Other Poe landmarks include a building in the Upper West Side, where Poe temporarily lived when he first moved to New York.

* 1845 – " The Raven " is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

" The Balloon-Hoax " is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

Poe may have been inspired to focus on the purposeful impersonal torture in part by Juan Antonio Llorente's History of the Spanish Inquisition, first published in 1817.

* January 19 – The Poe Toaster first appears at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe.

* January 29 – " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time ( New York Evening Mirror ).

* 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

According to statements on her official forum, Poe started work on a third album, but details are sketchy and several years have passed since the first announcement.

" The Raven " was first attributed to Poe in print in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845.

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

In January 1845 Poe published his poem, " The Raven ", to instant success.

Meanwhile, Poe published his second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, in Baltimore in 1829.

In June 1840, Poe published a prospectus announcing his intentions to start his own journal, The Stylus.

In the June 6, 1840 issue of Philadelphia's Saturday Evening Post, Poe bought advertising space for his prospectus: " Prospectus of the Penn Magazine, a Monthly Literary journal to be edited and published in the city of Philadelphia by Edgar A.

In July 1841, Poe had published an essay called " A Few Words on Secret Writing " in Graham's Magazine.

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.

As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).

Poe apparently got the idea for the shrinking chamber in the " Pit and the Pendulum " after Mudford's story was published in Blackwood's magazine in 1830.

Both girls began having their poems published as teenagers, and they eventually counted among their admirers Massachusetts poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, New York Tribune newspaper editor Horace Greeley, and author Edgar Allan Poe, who pronounced Alice Cary's Pictures of Memory, " one of the most musically perfect lyrics in the English language.

" The Masque of the Red Death ", originally published as " The Mask of the Red Death " ( 1842 ), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

The first mini-series, published in 2006, was based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe followed by a second series in 2008 adapting works by H. P. Lovecraft.

" The Tell-Tale Heart " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843.

His first full length novel, The Day of the Jackal, was published in 1971 and became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.

Despite his personal issues with Fuller, the typically harsh literary critic Edgar Allan Poe wrote of the work as " a book which few women in the country could have written, and no woman in the country would have published, with the exception of Miss Fuller ", noting its " independence " and " unmitigated radicalism ".

" The Cask of Amontillado " ( sometimes spelled " The Casque of Amontillado ") is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.

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.

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.

The Baltimore Saturday Visiter awarded Poe a prize in October 1833 for his short story " MS. Found in a Bottle ".

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?

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.

" The Black Cat " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

* The middle segment of director Roger Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror combines the story of " The Black Cat " with that of another Poe tale, " The Cask of Amontillado.

The plot essentially retells the short story in a semi-autobiographical manner, with Poe himself undergoing a series of events involving a black cat which he used to inspire the story of the same name.

Poe felt The Sun had made tremendous profits from his story without giving him a cent.

Poe himself describes the enthusiasm his story had aroused: he claims that the Sun building was " besieged " by people wanting copies of the newspaper.

The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts.

Poe makes no attempt to describe accurately the operations of the Spanish Inquisition, and takes considerable dramatic license with the broader history premised in this story.

Poe places a Latin epigraph before the story, describing it as " a quatrain composed for the gates of a market to be erected upon the site of the Jacobin Club House at Paris ".

Poe was familiar with Sale, and even mentioned him by name in a note in his story " The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade ".

" 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.

* The 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum directed by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and Barbara Steele, like the other installments in the Corman / Price " Poe Cycle ", bears minimal resemblance to the Poe story: the torture apparatus of the title makes its appearance only in the final 10 minutes of the film.

Once Stendahl's persecutors are dead, he and Pikes watch from a helicopter as the house crumbles and sinks into the lake as in Poe ’ s short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ".