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.

Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages.

Several months passed and pleas to Allan were ignored ; Allan may not have written to Poe even to make him aware of his foster mother's illness.

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

Edgar Allan Poe may have been inspired by Zadig when he created C. Auguste Dupin in " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ", which Poe called a " tale of ratiocination " and which established the modern detective fiction genre.

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.

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 may also have been drawing upon various references to ravens in mythology and folklore.

It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

Alternatively, the Red Death may refer to cholera ; Poe would have witnessed an epidemic of cholera in Baltimore, Maryland in 1831.

Poe may have identified with both Dupin and D —.

Poe may have known bricklaying through personal experience.

Poe may have also seen similar themes in Honoré de Balzac's " Le Grande Bretêche " ( Democratic Review, November 1843 ) or his friend George Lippard's The Quaker City ; or The Monks of Monk Hall ( 1845 ).

Poe may have borrowed Montresor's family motto Nemo me impune lacessit from James Fenimore Cooper, who used the line in The Last of the Mohicans ( 1826 ).

Poe may have also been inspired, at least in part, by the Washingtonian movement, a fellowship that promoted temperance.

Though Poe was referring to an ancient connection between worms and death, he may have been inspired by " The Proud Ladye ", a poem by Spencer Wallis Cone which was reviewed in an 1840 issue of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

Another source of inspiration may be from an actual couple by the name Mr. and Mrs. Luke Usher, the friends and fellow actors of his mother Eliza Poe.

The dead woman's name, however, may have been a reference to Poe's recently-dead brother, William Henry Leonard Poe.

A Narrative of Four Voyages may have given Poe the idea of the summarized title of his novel.

Poe may have used these real-life accounts in an attempt to hoax his readers into believing the novel was an autobiographical narrative by Pym.

The brilliant whiteness of the final figure in the novel contrasts with the dark-skinned savages and such a contrast may call to mind the escalating racial tensions over the question of slavery in the United States as Poe was writing the novel.

" Poe may have purposely left the ending subject to speculation.

He may be best remembered as an expert on Poe, whose works he was in the process of compiling when he died on May 15, 1968, at the age of 69.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

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

Originally, Poe intended to call the journal The Penn, as it would have been based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

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.

In " The Philosophy of Composition ", an essay in which Poe describes his method in writing " The Raven ", he claims to have strictly followed this method.

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.

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

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 ).

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

" 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.

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.

Poe claimed to have written the poem very logically and methodically, intending to create a poem that would appeal to both critical and popular tastes, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay " The Philosophy of Composition ".

Poe had written a review of Barnaby Rudge for Graham's Magazine saying, among other things, that the raven should have served a more symbolic, prophetic purpose.

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 ).

Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly, he was paid only $ 9 for its publication.

American International Pictures ( AIP ) made a series of Edgar Allan Poe – themed films directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, which ended with The Masque of the Red Death and The Tomb of Ligeia ( both 1964 ).

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

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.

Its publication made Poe widely popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success.

A damaged daguerreotype copy of one of the nine original daguerreotypes known to have been made of Edgar Allan Poe was featured on the PBS show Antiques Roadshow and appraised at US $ 30, 000 to $ 50, 000.

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.

As Poe wrote in a letter in 1848, it " made a great noise.

In 1923 he made his literary debut by publishing the mystery story under the pen name " Edogawa Rampo " ( pronounced quickly, this humorous pseudonym sounds much like the name of the American pioneer of detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, whom he admired ).

He is famous for his own made up exclamations, like " Poe hee!

The major coalitions that participated are the Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan ( K4 ; Coalition of Truth and Experience for Tomorrow ) composed of parties that support the candidacy of president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino ( KNP ; Coalition of United Filipinos ), parties that support the candidacy of movie actor Fernando Poe, Jr. A third coalition, the Alyansa ng Pag-asa ( Alliance of Hope ) was made up of Aksyon Demokratiko and Reporma-LM.

Also, even if Poe wasn't a natural-born Filipino citizen, he cannot be held guilty of having made a material misrepresentation in his certificate of candidacy.

Chivers made several similar unfounded accusations against Poe.

Poe should not be confused with the better-known Hawaiian poi made from taro and water, or the Hawaiian poke made from fish.

Poe made border security a centerpiece of his re-election strategy, calling for " more Guardsmen on the border front ".

In 1954 Rohmer made and acted in Bérénice, a 15 minute short based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

By July 28, Poe wrote to the publishers asking for the return of his manuscript because, as he said, he had " made a better disposition of my poems than I had any right to expect ".

By December, Poe was made editor of the journal.

Written and directed by a 27-year-old Anglo-Japanese film student, Shimako Sato, Hamilton made a dual appearance: first as Anne, a librarian in present-day London grieving the untimely death of her boyfriend ; then as Anne's 19th century doppelgänger, Virginia Clemm, the real-life wife of Edgar Allan Poe — who, in the film, also happens to be the long-lost mistress of a lonely, centuries-old vampire played by Julian Sands.

Poe, however, made his Gothic stories more sophisticated, dramatizing terror by using more realistic images.