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.

He had an elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister, Rosalie Poe.

Their grandfather, David Poe, Sr., had emigrated from Cavan, Ireland, to America around the year 1750.

The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church in 1812.

Poe claimed that Allan had not given him sufficient money to register for classes, purchase texts, and procure and furnish a dormitory.

Poe gave up on the university after a year, and, not feeling welcome in Richmond, especially when he learned that his sweetheart Royster had married Alexander Shelton, he traveled to Boston in April 1827, sustaining himself with odd jobs as a clerk and newspaper writer.

Poe was promoted to " artificer ", an enlisted tradesman who prepared shells for artillery, and had his monthly pay doubled.

They may have been expecting verses similar to the satirical ones Poe had been writing about commanding officers.

Poe, throughout his attempts to live as a writer, repeatedly had to resort to humiliating pleas for money and other assistance.

After his early attempts at poetry, Poe had turned his attention to prose.

Poe failed to show up for a meeting with Thomas to discuss the appointment in mid-September 1842, claiming to have been sick, though Thomas believed he had been drunk.

" " Ludwig " was soon identified as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, an editor, critic and anthologist who had borne a grudge against Poe since 1842.

Poe had a keen interest in cryptography.

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

Poe had an influence on cryptography beyond increasing public interest in his lifetime.

On August 15, 2007, Sam Porpora, a former historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore where Poe is buried, claimed that he had started the tradition in the 1960s.

Lovecraft had many similarities with Poe ; they both lost their fathers at a young age, loved poetry, and used archaisms ( language pertaining to an earlier generation ) in their writing.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

* 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.

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 ).

" 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.

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.

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

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.

Poe first published the story in the May 1842 edition of Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine as " The Mask of the Red Death ", with the tagline " A Fantasy ".

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.