Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

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.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

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.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.

This plaque marks the approximate location where Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves.

Poe attended the grammar school in Irvine, Scotland ( where John Allan was born ) for a short period in 1815, before rejoining the family in London in 1816.

Poe was first stationed at Boston's Fort Independence ( Massachusetts ) | Fort Independence while in the army.

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

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

Poe finally was discharged on April 15, 1829, after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term for him.

Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835, but was discharged within a few weeks for having been caught drunk by his boss.

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

On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, " in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance ", according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker.

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 Allans served as a foster family and gave him the name " Edgar Allan Poe ", though they never formally adopted him.

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

Autobiographical readings of the poem have also been used to support the theory that Virginia and Poe never consummated their marriage, as " Annabel Lee " was a " maiden ".

An " advanced computer " appears in The Austere Academy, which, while outdated by current standards, is nonetheless more advanced than the earliest computers ; this computer's exact functions are never stated, as its only use in the book is to show a picture of Count Olaf ( which both Mr. Poe and Vice Principal Nero believe will keep him away ), but in the companion book The Unauthorised Autobiography, one of the letters describes the computer as capable of an advanced act of forgery.

During his studies, he identified some poetry of Poe originally published anonymously as well as never published manuscripts.

They bid farewell to Mr Poe and arrive at the taxi to find a woman at the wheel that they have never seen before.

Poe seemed prostrated and, questioned by the police, said that one of her aristocratic relatives had taken her to the " seashore ," but that the cold winds had given her " flu ," from which she never " rallied.

While Poe proposed this, Hawthorne never lets the reader know the reasoning behind the veil.

He and Poe used to be in a relationship, and he has never quite gotten over that.

" Al Aaraaf " was published in its entirety only once in Poe's lifetime, though some critics believe Poe never actually completed the poem because Poe implied it was originally intended to have four parts or 400 lines.

While popular and well regarded in South Carolina — and highly praised by such critics as Edgar Allan Poe -- Simms never gained a large national audience.

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.

Poe v. Ullman,, was a United States Supreme Court case that held that plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, and banned doctors from advising their use, because the law had never been enforced.

She tells Abraham that Poe was never going to grant parole and was only using the incentive to control him.

The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed " Ludwig ".

On the remaining Great Lakes, these ships are constrained only by the largest lock on the Great Lakes Waterway, the Poe Lock at the Soo Locks, which is long, wide and deep.

The black rivers of pitch that flow under those mysterious cyclopean bridges — things built by some elder race extinct and forgotten before the beings came to Yuggoth from the ultimate voids — ought to be enough to make any man a Dante or Poe if he can keep sane long enough to tell what he has seen ...

The original Poe Lock was engineered by Orlando Poe and, at 800 feet long and 100 feet wide ( 244 x 30 m ), was the largest in the world when completed in 1896.

However, Poe died in 1849, long before the pamphlets were published.

Still, as G. R. Thomson writes in his Introduction to Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe 36, " the tale has long been hailed as a masterpiece of Gothic horror ; it is also a masterpiece of dramatic irony and structural symbolism.

In describing life on a long sea voyage, Poe also drew from personal experience.

However, Paulding reported back to Poe that the publishers at Harper & Brothers declined the collection, saying that readers were looking for simple, long works like novels.

" The response from Harper & Brothers inspired Poe to begin a long work and began writing The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

They re-track most of the album and are eventually joined by Elán's long time engineer Jeff " The Pirate " Poe.

The critical failure of both " Al Aaraaf " and " Tamerlane " convinced Poe that long poems are inherently flawed because they cannot sustain a proper mood or a high quality poetic form.

This is the title of a long poem by Edgar Allan Poe which had special significance for her.

Players encounter characters such as Mr. Poe, Uncle Monty and Aunt Josephine, along with villains such as Count Olaf, the hook-handed man, the white-faced women, and the bald man with the long nose.