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.

Howard would only allow Poe to be discharged if he reconciled with John Allan and wrote a letter to Allan, who was unsympathetic.

Poe tactically pled not guilty to induce dismissal, knowing he would be found guilty.

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.

Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire condition, and, oddly, was wearing clothes that were not his own.

One interesting trend among imitators of Poe, however, has been claims by clairvoyants or psychics to be " channeling " poems from Poe's spirit.

In " The Philosophy of Composition " ( 1846 ) Poe argued that a literary work should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting.

The author of this retraction has not been determined and was rumored to be Poe himself .< p >

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 ".

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.

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.

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 ).

In fact, in the Ducktales episode " Till Nephews do we part " she and Poe can be seen attending ( and being invited guests to ) Scrooge's wedding.

Because Poe used to be an anthropomorphic duck, he is capable of speech and can interact with the other characters.

In addition to having his name be a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe poem " The Raven ", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word " nevermore ".

It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

The work was reviewed favourably again by Edgar Allan Poe, but proved to be a commercial flop.

In 1934, Grofé announced that he was working on an opera, to be based on the Edgar Allan Poe story " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but even major 20th century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges admired and claimed to be partly influenced by his work.

") 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.

* Tamerlane and Other Poems-written by " A Bostonian ", revealed to be Edgar Allan Poe, his first poetry collection