Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

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.

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

The subject of this article should not be confused with a former newspaper correspondent, for who the Edgar Allan Poe Award is named

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.

On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore ; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

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

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.

Poe is said to have repeatedly called out the name " Reynolds " on the night before his death, though it is unclear to whom he was referring.

The piece began, " Edgar Allan Poe is dead.

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.

T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.

Poe is particularly respected in France, in part due to early translations by Charles Baudelaire.

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?

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia is one of several preserved former residences of Poe

No childhood home of Poe is still standing, including the Allan family's Moldavia estate.

The oldest standing home in Richmond, the Old Stone House, is in use as the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, though Poe never lived there.

The dorm room Poe is believed to have used while studying at the University of Virginia in 1826 is preserved and available for visits.

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.

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 also reinvented science fiction, responding in his writing to emerging technologies such as hot air balloons in " The Balloon-Hoax ".

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.

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.