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.

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.

His theory of etyms is developed in his magnum opus, Zettels Traum, in which an elderly writer comments on Edgar Allan Poe's works in a stream of consciousness, while discussing a Poe translation with a couple of translators and flirting with their teenage daughter.

Her mother, Jean Poe Carpenter ( née Harlow ), was the daughter of a wealthy real estate broker, Skip Harlow, and his wife Ella Harlow ( née Williams ).

Poe and Roces adopted a daughter, incumbent MTRCB Chairman Mary Grace Poe-Llamanzares.

Porpora's daughter said she had never heard of her father's actions but that it fit in with his mischievous nature ; but Jeff Jerome of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum pointed out that the details of Porpora's story seemed to change with each telling.

Danielewski was born in New York City, New York, the son of Polish avant-garde film director Tad Danielewski and the brother of singer / songwriter Annie Decatur Danielewski, a. k. a. Poe.

* November 12-Stefan Grabinski, " the Polish Poe "

A few days afterwards, having been encouraged by Ray and New York underground filmmaker Amos Poe and using scholarship funds given by the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to pay for his school tuition, Jarmusch started work on a film for his final project.

* 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 1990 film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, " The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar " and " The Black Cat.

* 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.

The Fall of the House of Usher ( 1928 ) is a short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, " The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe.

One example occurs when the character Karen Green is interviewing various academics on their interpretations of the short film " Exploration # 4 "; she consults a " Poet ," but there is a space between the " Poe " and the " t ," possibly suggesting that Poe at one point commented on the book.

Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film adapted from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, starring Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer, was adapted by James Poe from the novel.

The film also adapted parts of another Poe story, " Hop-Frog ", involving the court jester and his wife.

* The story was adapted, combined with elements from Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ", by American director Orson Welles as a planned episode for the Poe anthology film Spirits of the Dead, which was to have starred Welles as Prince Prospero and Oja Kodar as Fortunata.

* The film Nightmares from the Mind of Poe ( 2006 ) adapts " The Tell-Tale Heart " along with " The Cask of Amontillado ", " The Premature Burial " and " The Raven ".

* In the 1972 film An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe, four of Poe's short stories are recited by Vincent Price in front of a live audience, including " The Tell-Tale Heart ".

Stamp then journeyed to Italy to star in Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit, a 50-minute portion of the Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation Histoires extraordinaires ( 1968, aka Spirits of the Dead ).

In 1980, he made his screen debut in the Emmy-winning TV movie The Gold Bug, in which he played the young Edgar Allan Poe, but it was not until the release of the 1982 Kenny Rogers film Six Pack that he gained real notice.

Disco Volante included influences from contemporary classical music, avant-garde jazz, electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Krzysztof Penderecki and European film music of the 1960s and 1970s, such as those composed by Ennio Morricone and Peter Thomas.

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

In early 1942, Darnell filmed The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, another film that would not do much to improve her career.

The opposition had film actor Fernando Poe, Jr. as their candidate, but Panfilo Lacson refused to give way and ran as a candidate of a breakaway faction of the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino.

The film was Corman's first in a series of eight films inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Chess expert Poe McClinton, still a park regular, is seen throughout the film.