Edgar Allan Poe
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- January 18, 1809
- Died
- October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Biography
Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as one of the central figures of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States and early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful short story practitioners and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. In addition, he is credited with contributing significantly to the emergence of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living by writing alone, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston. He was the second child of actors David and Elizabeth "Eliza" Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when Eliza died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he lived with them well into young adulthood. Poe attended the University of Virginia but left after only a year due to a lack of money. He frequently quarrelled with John Allan over the funds needed to continue his education as well as his gambling debts. In 1827, having enlisted in the United States Army under the assumed name of Edgar A. Perry, he published his first collection, Tamerlane and Other Poems, which was credited only to "a Bostonian". Poe and Allan reached a temporary rapprochement after the death of Allan's wife, Frances, in 1829. However, Poe later failed as an officer cadet at West Point, declared his intention to become a writer, primarily of poems, and parted ways with Allan. Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In 1836, when he was 27, he married his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. She died of tuberculosis in 1847. In January 1845, he published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. He planned for years to produce his journal, The Penn, later renamed The Stylus. But before it began publishing, Poe died in Baltimore in 1849, aged 40, under mysterious circumstances. The cause of his death remains unknown and has been attributed to many causes, including disease, alcoholism, substance abuse, and suicide. Poe's works influenced the development of literature worldwide and even impacted such specialized fields as cosmology and cryptography. Since his death, he and his writings have appeared throughout popular culture in art, photography, literary allusions, music, motion pictures, and television. Several of his homes are dedicated museums. In addition, The Mystery Writers of America presents an annual Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar Allan Poe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Uncanny Stories
Movie · Short Story
Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Writer
Usher's Legacy
Movie · Story
Berenice
Movie · Original Story
Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat
Movie · Original Story
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Original Story
FORTUNATO
Movie · Original Story
Fortunato's Descent
Movie · Short Story
3 Days Rising
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Writer
The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Movie · Original Story
Behind Me
Movie · Original Concept
BPM
Movie · Original Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Adaptation
O Coração Delator
Movie · Book
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Original Story
Opus Magnum
Movie · Original Story
The Raven
Movie · Writers' Assistant
Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Terror of the Soul
Movie · Original Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Original Film Writer
Bedtime Stories: Tales of Love and Hate
Movie · Short Story
The Wooden Ghost
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
Movie · Original Story
Thirty2
Movie · Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Original Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
TV · Short Story · 8 eps
The Graves of Edgar Allan Poe and the Women Who Haunted Him
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of Usher
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allen Poe's Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Writer
A Descent into the Maelström
Movie · Short Story
Bridal Ballad
Movie · Short Story
Lenore
Movie · Short Story
The Tell Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Shadow: A Parable
Movie · Short Story
Lady Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
El corazón delator
Movie · Screenplay
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
Poe's Lighthouse
Movie · Short Story
The Bloodhound
Movie · Original Story
Annabel Lee
Movie · Short Story
The Oval Portrait
Movie · Short Story
Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar
Movie · Original Story
The Darkest Hour
Movie · Short Story
The Revealing Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story, Writer
New Chilling Tales: The Anthology
Movie · Story
Magnicidios Poe
Movie · Short Story
Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
The Invitation
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's Lighthouse Keeper
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Raven (by Edgar Allan Poe)
Movie · Short Story
The Lighthouse
Movie · Original Story
Animus: The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Extraordinary Tales
Movie · Short Story
Berenice
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven
Movie · Writer
Terroir
Movie · Short Story
Tales of Poe
Movie · Short Story
The Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
Stonehearst Asylum
Movie · Short Story
The Cask
Movie · Short Story
A Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
Entrañas
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House Of Usher
Movie · Short Story
Riddle of the Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
Dead End
Movie · Novel
Morella
Movie · Short Story
The Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
1313: Haunted Frat
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Annabel Lee
Movie · Short Story
Mea Maxima Culpa
Movie · Short Story
The Tell Tale Heart
Movie · Story
Le retour de William Wilson
Movie · Writer
Le chat noir
Movie · Writer
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Tomb
Movie · Short Story
Tell-Tale
Movie · Short Story
Syner
Movie · Short Story
La verdad sobre el caso del señor Valdemar
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & The Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Morella
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Raven
Movie · Author
The Tell Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Lunacy
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
El hombre largo
Movie · Book
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
El barril de amontillado
Movie · Book
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
Movie · Short Story
Killed by Lightning
Movie · Short Story
The Mesmerist
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
Movie · Original Story
Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
William Wilson
Movie · Short Story
The Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
Morella
Movie · Short Story
The Gold Bug
Movie · Short Story
Tiny Toon Night Ghoulery
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
TV · Writer · 13 eps
Tale of a Vampire
Movie · Short Story
Fool's Fire
Movie · Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
The Haunting of Morella
Movie · Short Story
Two Evil Eyes
Movie · Short Story
Haunting Fear
Movie · Short Story
Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
Buried Alive
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
The Tell Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
The Simpsons
TV · Short Story · 1 ep
Heirs of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Power of Speech
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Story
The Man of the Crowd
Movie · Short Story
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie · Short Story
Havran v panelovém domě
Movie · Original Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Sphinx
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope
Movie · Short Story
Edgar and the Raven
Movie · Short Story
Revenge in the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
A Cobiça do Sexo
Movie · Original Story
A Vintage Detective Story
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
El Caso del Señor Valdemar
Movie · Writer
American Playhouse
TV · Short Story, Writer · 1 ep
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
System
Movie · Short Story
Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume
Movie · Writer
The Gold Bug
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Story
What a Honeymoon
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Racconti fantastici
TV · Original Story · 4 eps
The Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
William Wilson
Movie · Short Story
The Destroying Angel
Movie · Short Story
El acomodador
Movie · Story
The Imp of the Perverse
Movie · Short Story
Night of the Skull
Movie · Short Story
All the Horrors of Satan
Movie · Screenplay
The Oval Portrait
Movie · Short Story
The Mansion of Madness
Movie · Short Story
Hilda Muramer
Movie · Short Story
The Sabbat of the Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
Imp of the Perverse
Movie · Story
Centre Play
TV · Short Story · 2 eps
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Movie · Short Story
The Cask of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
Tell-Tale Hearts
Movie · Short Story
One Minute Before Death
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie · Short Story
Legend of Horror
Movie · Original Story
Theatre Macabre
TV · Short Story · 2 eps
Mask of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Story
A. C. Dupin zasahuje
TV · Short Story · 3 eps
The Oblong Box
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee
Movie · Short Story
El Cuervo
Movie · Writer
Spirits of the Dead
Movie · Short Story
Toby Dammit
Movie · Original Story
Macabre Serenade
Movie · Screenplay
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
Ágata
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
El Tonel
Movie · Writer
El Pacto
Movie · Writer
Tales to Keep You Awake
TV · Short Story · 5 eps
Mystery and Imagination
TV · Short Story · 2 eps
War-Gods of the Deep
Movie · Short Story
Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Movie · Novel
Master of Horror
Movie · Original Story
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie · Short Story
The Tomb of Ligeia
Movie · Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
El último reloj
Movie · Short Story
Castle of Blood
Movie · Short Story
Vražda v ulici Morgue
Movie · Short Story
The Haunted Palace
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
A Barrel of Amontillado
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Pit
Movie · Short Story
Tales of Terror
Movie · Short Story
The Premature Burial
Movie · Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
Masterworks of Terror
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
Ligeia
Movie · Short Story
El corazón delator
Movie · Short Story
Berenice
Movie · Short Story
El Corazon Delator
Movie · Original Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Telltale Heart
Movie · Short Story
Manfish
Movie · Short Story
Armchair Theatre
TV · Story · 1 ep
Bérénice
Movie · Short Story
Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Movie · Short Story
Asylum
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
El barril de amontillado
Movie · Short Story
Unusual Tales
Movie · Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe Centenary
Movie · Story
Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Movie · Short Story
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Crime of Doctor Crespi
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Short Story
The Oval Portrait
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie · Novel
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie · Short Story
The Living Dead
Movie · Short Story
Feathered shadows
Movie · Short Story
The Strange Bride
Movie · Story
The Telltale Heart
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie · Short Story
Prelude
Movie · Short Story
A Spectre Haunts Europe
Movie · Short Story
Ligeia
Movie · Short Story
Annabelle Lee
Movie · Short Story
Eerie Tales
Movie · Short Story
The Plague of Florence
Movie · Short Story
The Black Cat
Movie · Story
The Double Murder in the Rue Morgue
Movie · Novel
The Raven
Movie · Short Story
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Movie · Short Story
The Avenging Conscience
Movie · Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
The Student of Prague
Movie · Short Story
Dr. Goudron's System
Movie · Short Story
The Bells
Movie · Short Story
The Bells
Movie · Original Story
The Mask of the Red Death
Movie · Story
The Oval Portrait
Movie · Short Story
The Sealed Room
Movie · Short Story
The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie · Short Story
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery
Movie · Short Story