Poe Bio

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors. Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old. He was adopted by John Allan, a tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia, and was sent to a boarding school in London, England. He later attended the University of Virginia for one year, but dropped out and ran up massive gambling debts after spending all of his tuition money. John Allan broke off Poe's engagement to his fiancée Sarah Royster. Poe was heartbroken, traumatized, and broke. He had no way out and enlisted in the army in May of 1827. At the same time Poe published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems" (1827). In 1829, he became a West Point cadet, but was dismissed after 6 months for disobedience. By that time he published "Al Aaraf" (1929) and "Poems by Edgar A. Poe" (1831), with the funds contributed by his fellow cadets. His early poetry, though written in the manner of Lord Byron, already shows the musical effects of his verses.

Poe moved in with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her teenage daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm, whom he married before she was 14 years old. He earned respect as a critic and writer. In his essays "The Poetic Principle" and "The Philosophy of Composition" Poe formulated important literary theories. But his career suffered from his compulsive behavior and from alcohol. He did produce, however, a constant flow of highly musical poems, of which "The Raven" (1845) and "The Bells" (1849) are the finest examples. Among his masterful short stories are "Ligeia" (1838), "The Fall of the House of Usher"(1839) and "The Masque of the Red Death". Following his own theory of creating "a certain unique or single effect", Poe invented the genre of the detective story. His works: "The Murder in the Rue Morgue" (1841) is probably the first detective story ever published.

Just when his life began to settle, Poe was devastated by the death of his wife Virginia in 1847. Two years later he returned to Richmond and resumed a relationship with his former fiancée, Sarah Royster, who, by that time, was a widow. But shortly after their happy reconciliation he was found unconscious on a street in Baltimore. Poe was taken to the Washington College Hospital where Doctor John Moran diagnosed "lesions on the brain" (the Doctor believed Poe was mugged). He died 4 days later, briefly coming in and out of consciousness, just to whisper his last words, "Lord, help my poor soul." The real cause of his death is still unknown and his death certificate has been disappeared. Poe's critic and personal enemy, named Rufus Griswold, published an insulting obituary; later he visited Poe's home and took away all of the writer's manuscripts (which he never returned), and published his "Memoir" of Poe, in which he forged a madman image of the writer.

The name of the woman in Poe's poem "Annabel Lee" was used by Vladimir Nabokov in 'Lolita' as the name for Humbert's first love, Annabelle Leigh. Nabokov also used in 'Lolita' some phrases borrowed from the poem of Edgar Allan Poe. "The Fall of the House of Usher" was set to music by Claude Debussy as an opera. Sergei Rachmaninov created a musical tribute to Poe by making his favorite poem "The Bells" into the eponymous Choral Symphony.

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1. "Masters of Horror"
       - The Black Cat (2007) TV Episode (short story)
2. The House of Usher (2006) (short story)
3. Sílení (2005) (story)
   ... aka Lunacy (USA)
4. The Tell Tale Heart (2005)
5. "Hombre largo, El" (2004) (mini) TV Series (story)
6. The Tell-Tale Heart (2004)
7. Gatto nero, Il (2003) (novel)
8. Corazón delator, El (2003) (inspired by)
9. Barril del amontillado, El (2003) (TV) (story)
10. The Tell-Tale Heart (2003) (V) (story)
11. The Raven (2003) (poem)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven (USA: complete title)
12. Verräterische Herz, Das (2003) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
    ... aka The Tell-Tale Heart
13. Ubitye molniey (2002) (novelette The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
    ... aka Killed by Lightning (International: English title)
14. Alone (2002) (poem "Alone")
15. Hatred of a Minute (2002) (poem "To-")
16. Silencio (2002) (story)
17. Usher (2002) (story)
18. Portrait ovale, Le (2001) (novel)
19. "The Fear" (2001) TV Series (story)
    
    
20. The Raven... Nevermore (1999) (poem The Raven)
    ... aka Cuervo, El (Spain: TV title)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven... Nevermore (Spain: complete title)
21. Escarabajo de oro, El (1999) (novel)
22. William Wilson (1999) (story)
23. The Tell Tale Heart (1999) (TV) (story)
24. Corazón delator (1999/I) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
25. Corazón delator (1999/II) (book)
26. Rabe, Der (1998) (poem) (as E.A. Poe)
    ... aka The Raven (International: English title)
27. Mind's Eye (1998/I) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
28. Morella (1997) (story)
    ... aka The Cloning of Morella
29. Verraderlijke hart, Het (1996) (V) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
30. The Black Cat (1995)
31. "American Masters"
        - Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul (1995) TV Episode (stories and poems)
32. "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (1995) TV Series (stories)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination (USA: complete title)
33. The Dark Eye (1995) (VG) (stories)
34. Drug-Taking and the Arts (1994) (letters)
35. The Mummy Lives (1993) (story Some Words with A Mummy) (suggestion)
36. Fool's Fire (1992) (TV) (story Hop-Frog)
37. Chute de la maison Usher, La (1992) (novel)
38. Haunting Fear (1991) (story Premature Burial)
39. The Tell-Tale Heart (1991) (TV) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1991) (V) (story)
41. "The Simpsons"
        - Treehouse of Horror (1990) TV Episode (poem The Raven)
42. Buried Alive (1990) (story)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive
43. The Haunting of Morella (1990) (story)
44. Due occhi diabolici (1990) (stories)
    ... aka Two Evil Eyes (USA)
45. The Pit and the Pendulum (1990) (V) (story)
    ... aka The Inquisitor (USA: DVD title)
    
    
46. Gatto nero, Il (1989) (story)
    ... aka Demons 6 (USA: dubbed version)
    ... aka Demons 6: De Profundis (USA)
    ... aka Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat
    ... aka The Black Cat
47. Masque of the Red Death (1989) (short story)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Masque of the Red Death (USA: complete title)
48. The House of Usher (1988) (story)
    ... aka The Fall of the House of Usher
49. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986) (TV) (story)
50. Rosenkönig, Der (1986) (poem The Raven)
    ... aka Rei das rosas, O (Portugal)
    ... aka Roi des roses, Le (France)
    ... aka The Rose King
51. Hombre de la multitud, El (1986) (story)
52. The Tell-Tale Heart (1986)
53. Wilde Rabe, Der (1985) (poem)
    ... aka The Wild Raven (International: English title)
54. Berenice (1985) (story)
55. En busca del dragón dorado (1983) (story The Golden Beetle)
56. Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje (1983) (story)
    ... aka The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
57. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982) (TV) (story)
58. Elitélt, Az (1982) (TV)
59. Trapero, El (1982) (TV) (tale)
    ... aka Historias para no dormir: El trapero (Spain)
60. Revenge in the House of Usher (1982) (story The Fall of the House of Usher)
    ... aka Chute de la maison Usher, La (France)
    ... aka Hundimiento de la casa Usher, El (Spain)
    ... aka Neurosis
    ... aka Nevrose (France: longer version)
    ... aka Revolt of the House of Usher
    ... aka Zombie 5 (USA)
61. Jugador de ajedrez, El (1981) (tale)
62. Histoires extraordinaires: La lettre volée (1981) (TV) (short story)
63. Black Cat (Gatto nero) (1981) (story)
    ... aka The Black Cat (International: English title) (USA)
64. Histoires extraordinaires: Le scarabée d'or (1981) (TV) (short story)
    ... aka Escarabajo de oro (Mexico)
65. Histoires extraordinaires: Le joueur d'échecs de Maelzel (1981) (TV) (short story)
66. Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume, Le (1981) (TV) (novel)
67. Histoires extraordinaires: La chute de la maison Usher (1981) (TV) (story)
    ... aka The Fall of the House of Usher (International: English title)
68. Zánik domu Usheru (1981) (story)
    ... aka The Fall of the House of Usher
69. Ligeia (1981) (TV) (story)
70. The Fog (1980) (quotation) (uncredited)
    ... aka John Carpenter's The Fog (USA: complete title)
71. The Gold Bug (1980) (TV) (story)
72. Schwarze Katze, Die (1980) (TV) (story)
    
    
73. Verräterische Herz, Das (1979) (TV) (story)
74. Valdemar, el homonculus dormido (1977) (novel)
75. Noche de los asesinos, La (1976) (story The Cat and the Canary)
    ... aka Night of the Skull (International: English title)
    ... aka Suspiri (Spain: video title)
76. "Centre Play for Christmas: William Wilson" (1976) TV Series (story)
77. The Imp of the Perverse (1975) (TV) (story)
    ... aka Centre Play: The Imp of the Perverse (UK: series title)
78. Acomodador, El (1975) (story)
79. "Grands détectives, Les" (1975) TV Series (novel)
80. Trapero, El (1974) (TV) (story)
81. Satanás de todos los horrores (1974) (story The Fall of The House of Usher)
82. Hilda Muramer (1973) (TV) (story "Metzengerstein")
83. The Mansion of Madness (1973) (story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether)
    ... aka Dr. Goudron's System
    ... aka Dr. Tarr's Pit of Horrors
    ... aka Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe: Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon (USA)
    ... aka House of Madness
    ... aka Mansión de la locura, La (Mexico: dubbed version)
    ... aka The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather
84. Double assassinat de la rue Morgue, Le (1973) (TV) (short story)
85. The Sabbat of the Black Cat (1973) (story The Black Cat)
86. Tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave, Il (1972) (story The Black Cat)
    ... aka Excite Me
    ... aka Eye of the Black Cat
    ... aka Gently Before She Dies
    ... aka Your Vice Is a Closed Room and Only I Have the Key
87. One Minute Before Death (1972) (story The Oval Portrait)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's One Minute Before Midnight (video title)
    ... aka Retrato ovalado, El (Mexico)
    ... aka The Oval Portrait (UK)
88. Legend of Horror (1972) (story The Tell Tale Heart)
89. An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1972) (stories The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado and The Pit and the Pendulum)
90. Hjertet, der sladrede (1971) (TV) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
91. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) (story)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue (USA: complete title)
92. The Tell-Tale Heart (1971) (story)
93. "Hora once"
        - Eleonora (1971) TV Episode (plays)
    
    
94. The Oblong Box (1969) (story)
    ... aka Dance, Mephisto
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's The Oblong Box
95. "Mystery and Imagination"
        - The Telltale Heart (1968) TV Episode (story)
        - The Fall of the House of Usher (1966) TV Episode (story)
96. Witchfinder General (1968) (poem The Conqueror Worm)
    ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Conqueror Worm
    ... aka The Conqueror Worm (USA)
97. Histoires extraordinaires (1968) (story Metzengerstein) (segment "Metzengerstein") (as Edgar Allan Poë) (story Ne pariez jamais votre tête avec le Diable {Never Bet the Devil Your Head}) (segment "Toby Dammit") (as Edgar A. Poë) (story William Wilson) (segment "William Wilson") (as Edgar Allan Poë)
    ... aka Spirits of the Dead (USA)
    ... aka Tales of Mystery
    ... aka Tales of Mystery and Imagination (UK)
    ... aka Tre passi nel delirio (Italy)
    ... aka Trois histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe
98. House of Evil (1968) (story)
    ... aka Dance of Death
    ... aka Macabre Serenade
99. Schlangengrube und das Pendel, Die (1967) (story The Pit and the Pendulum)
    ... aka Castle of the Walking Dead
    ... aka Pendulum
    ... aka The Blood Demon (USA)
    ... aka The Snake Pit (video title)
    ... aka The Snake Pit and the Pendulum
    ... aka The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (USA: TV title)
    ... aka The Torture Room
100. The Black Cat (1966) (story)
     ... aka Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat (USA: complete title)
101. 5 tombe per un medium (1965) (story)
     ... aka Cemetery of the Living Dead
     ... aka Cinque tombe per un medium
     ... aka Coffin of Terror
     ... aka Five Graves for a Medium
     ... aka Terror-Creatures from the Grave
     ... aka Tombs of Horror
102. The City Under the Sea (1965) (based on poem "City in the Sea")
     ... aka City in the Sea (USA)
     ... aka War-Gods of the Deep (USA)
103. Trapero, El (1965) (TV) (story)
104. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) (story)
     ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's The Tomb of Ligeia (UK: complete title)
     ... aka Last Tomb of Ligeia
     ... aka Ligeia
     ... aka Tomb of the Cat
105. The Masque of the Red Death (1964) (stories "The Masque of the Red Death" and "Hop-Frog")
106. Puits et la pendule, Le (1964) (TV) (story The Pit and the Pendulum)
     ... aka The Pit and the Pendulum (USA)
107. "Historias para no dormir" (1964) TV Series (tales)
108. Horror (1963/I) (story) (uncredited)
     ... aka Horror (Italy)
     ... aka The Blancheville Monster (USA)
109. The Raven (1963) (poem)
110. Tales of Terror (1962) (stories Morella, The Black Cat, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, and A Cask of Amontillado)
     ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror (USA)
     ... aka Poe's Tales of Terror
111. The Premature Burial (1962) (story)
112. "Thriller"
     ... aka Boris Karloff's Thriller
         - The Premature Burial (1961) TV Episode (story)
113. Pit and the Pendulum (1961) (story)
     ... aka The Pit and the Pendulum (USA)
114. "Great Ghost Tales" (1961) TV Series (story) (episode William Windom")
115. Scarabée d'or, Le (1961) (story)
116. The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
     ... aka The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors
     ... aka The Horror Man
117. Obras maestras del terror (1960) (stories The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Tell-Tale Heart)
     ... aka Master of Horror (USA: cut version)
     ... aka Masterworks of Terror
     ... aka Short Stories of Terror (USA)
118. House of Usher (1960) (story The Fall of The House of Usher)
     ... aka The Fall of the House of Usher (UK) (USA)
     
     
119. Berenice (1959) (TV) (story)
120. Corazón delator, El (1959) (TV)
121. Ligeia (1959) (TV) (story)
122. The Tell-Tale Heart (1958) (story)
123. "Matinee Theatre"
         - The Fall of the House of Usher (1956) TV Episode (story)
124. Manfish (1956) (stories The Gold Bug and The Tell-Tale Heart)
     ... aka Calypso (UK)
125. Galerie der großen Detektive - Auguste Dupin findet den entwendeten Brief, Die (1954) (TV) (story The Purloined Letter)
126. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954) (story The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
127. Manicomio (1954) (story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether)
128. Bérénice (1954) (story)
129. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953/II) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
130. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953/I) (story)
131. "Your Favorite Story" (1953) TV Series (story) (episode "God Sees the Truth")
132. "Coração Delator" (1953) TV Series (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
133. Résurrection de Barnabé, La (1953) (short story)
134. The Cuckoo Clock (1950) (uncredited)
     
     
135. Histoires extraordinaires (1949) (stories The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado)
     ... aka Unusual Tales (International: English title)
136. "Suspense"
         - The Cask of Amontillado (1949) TV Episode (story)
137. The Fall of the House of Usher (1949) (story)
138. Mystery of Marie Roget (1942) (story)
     ... aka Phantom of Paris
139. The Tell-Tale Heart (1941) (story)
     ... aka Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (USA: complete title)
140. The Black Cat (1941) (story)
     
     
141. The Tell-Tale Heart (1939) (TV) (story)
142. The Crime of Dr. Crespi (1935) (story The Premature Burial)
143. The Raven (1935) (poem)
144. The Tell-Tale Heart (1934) (story The Tell-Tale Heart)
     ... aka Bucket of Blood (USA)
145. The Black Cat (1934) (story)
     ... aka The House of Doom (UK)
     ... aka The Vanishing Body (USA: reissue title)
146. Maniac (1934) (story The Black Cat)
     ... aka Sex Maniac
147. Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) (stories The Black Cat, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether)
     ... aka Fünf unheimliche Geschichten (Germany)
     ... aka Five Sinister Stories (International: English title: literal title)
     ... aka Ghastly Tales (USA: informal title)
     ... aka Tales of the Uncanny
     ... aka The Living Dead (USA)
     ... aka Unholy Tales (International: English title: informal title)
148. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) (story)
149. Étrange fiancée, L' (1930) (story)
     
     
150. Chute de la maison Usher, La (1928) (story)
     ... aka The Fall of the House of Usher (International: English title)
151. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928/I) (story) (as Poe)
152. The Telltale Heart (1928) (story "The Tell-tale Heart")
153. Prelude (1927) (poem "The Premature Burial")
154. Prizrak brodit po Yevrope (1923) (story The Masque of the Red Death)
     ... aka A Spectre Haunts Europe (International: English title)
155. Edgar Allan Poe (1922) (poem "Annabel Lee")
156. Annabel Lee (1921) (poem)
     
     
157. Unheimliche Geschichten (1919) (story Die schwarze Katze) (segment 3)
     ... aka Eerie Tales (USA)
     ... aka Five Sinister Stories
     ... aka Tales of Horror
     ... aka Tales of the Uncanny
     ... aka Weird Tales
158. Pest in Florenz, Die (1919) (story The Masque of the Red Death)
     ... aka The Plague in Florence
159. Ostrov zabenya (1917) (story)
     ... aka Isle of Oblivion (International: English title)
160. Freitag, der 13. - Das unheimliche Haus, 2. Teil (1916) (additional material)
161. The Avenging Conscience; Thou Shalt Not Kill (1914) (stories The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart) (poem Annabel Lee)
     ... aka Thou Shalt Not Kill
162. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914) (story)
163. Braune Bestie, Die (1914)
164. Système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume, Le (1913) (story The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether)
     ... aka The Lunatics (USA)
165. Student von Prag, Der (1913) (story William Wilson)
     ... aka A Bargain with Satan (USA)
     ... aka The Student of Prague
166. The Bells (1913/II) (poem)
167. The Bells (1913/I) (poem)
168. The Pit and the Pendulum (1913) (story)
169. The Raven (1912) (poem)
     
     
170. The Sealed Room (1909) (novel The Cask of Amontillado)
171. Puits et le pendule, Le (1909)
172. Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908) (novel Murders in the Rue Morgue)
     
     

1. Lover from Beyond the Grave (2006) (V) (special thanks)
   
   
2. Continental (1990) (acknowledgment)
   
   
3. Night Tide (1961) (quotation)
   
   

1. The Merchant of Venice (2004) (lyrics: "Bridal Ballad")
   ... aka Mercante di Venezia, Il (Italy)
   ... aka William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (USA: complete title)
2. Jeff Buckley: Everybody Here Wants You (2002) (TV) (lyrics: "Ulalume")
   
   
3. "Felicity"
       - Spooked (1998) TV Episode (writer: "Annabel Lee")
   
   

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