Edgar Allan Poe

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The stars guide the narrator of his Gothic poem "Ulalume" Edgar Allan Poe $2,000 DJ AMERICAN LIT 2024-07-10 #9143
The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2021-05-21 #8405
Alfred Hitchcock wrote, "It's because I liked" his "stories so much that I began to make suspense films" Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2019-03-21 #7954
On his 1849 death, it was said he was "regarded rather with curiosity than admiration" & "few will be grieved" Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 2016-07-26 #7352
He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant" Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN LIT 2011-02-23 #6093
Unlike some of his other scary stories, "The Pit and the Pendulum" has a happy ending (Edgar Allan) Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN LIT 2008-09-15 #5521
An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating" Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 2007-01-15 #5146
His scary 1842 story "The Masque of the Red Death" begins, "The 'Red Death' had long devastated the country" Edgar Allan Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 2003-09-23 #4377
His story "MS. Found in a Bottle" was the prize-winning entry in an 1833 newspaper contest Edgar Allan Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1997-04-07 #2911
Mrs. Marie Louise Shew inspired this poet to write about the bells that annoyed him Edgar Allan Poe $100 J AMERICAN LIT 1997-01-22 #2858
His first collection, "Tamerlane and Other Poems", was published in 1827 & credited to "A Bostonian" (Edgar Allan) Poe $800 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1996-03-01 #2655
His famous story "The Premature Burial" is set "some miles down the banks of" the James River in Virginia Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1995-05-18 #2479
Among the scary stories he published in 1843 were "The Tell-Tale Heart" & "The Black Cat" Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1994-11-09 #2343
While an editor of Graham's Magazine, he wrote "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe $600 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1993-11-08 #2111
He received only $10 for the first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan) Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1993-02-26 #1960
A 40-year old widower, he was engaged to remarry when he died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849 Edgar Allan Poe FJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1991-07-10 #1598
He wrote “The Bells” & “Annabel Lee” at his farmhouse in the Bronx Edgar Allan Poe $400 DJ AMERICAN LITERATURE 1991-04-09 #1532
C. Auguste Dupin is an amateur detective who appears in 3 of his short stories (Edgar Allan) Poe $400 J AMERICAN LITERATURE 1990-08-25 #11
Manet did illustrations for a French translation of this author's poem "The Raven" Edgar Allan Poe $200 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1989-09-05 #1147
Upon seeing this author in the audience, a 19th c. actor worked "Nevermore, nevermore" into his dialogue (Edgar Allan) Poe $100 J AMERICAN AUTHORS 1989-03-29 #1063
It's said he was kidnapped in Baltimore during the 1849 election & forced to vote so many times he collapsed & died Edgar Allan Poe $800 DJ AMERICAN AUTHORS 1988-05-03 #857
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