Edgar Allan Poe
Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
– “To One in Paradise” (1843)
Poe (Wikipedia) worked at the birth of detective fiction, helped bring Romanticism to the USA and wrote early efforts toward science fiction as a genre, but he also loved banter, Gothic horror, fabulism, and, above all, the tragic death of beautiful women. His fans have debated how haunted he really was by the deaths of people around him, including his parents and his wife, a cousin who was 13 when they married and who died just two years before the alcoholic Poe himself.
Reviewed work
- “A Dream” (1827) Writer
- “Dreams” (1827) Writer
- “Evening Star” (1827) Writer
- “Imitation” (1827) Writer
- “Song” (1827) Writer
- “Spirits of the Dead” (1827) Writer
- “Stanzas” (1827) Writer
- “Tamerlane” (1827) Writer
- “The Happiest Day” (1827) Writer
- “The Lake” (1827) Writer
- “Al Aaraaf” (1829) Writer
- “Elizabeth” (1829) Writer
- “Fairy-Land” (1829) Writer
- “Romance” (1829) Writer
- “Sonnet — To Science” (1829) Writer
- “To Marie Louise” (1829) Writer
- “To the River” (1829) Writer
- “To —” (1829) Writer
- “Alone” (1830) Writer
- “To M—” (1830) Writer
- “A Pæan” (1831) Writer
- “Israfel” (1831) Writer
- “The City in the Sea” (1831) Writer
- “The Sleeper” (1831) Writer
- “The Valley Nis” (1831) Writer
- “To Helen” (1831) Writer
- “A Tale of Jerusalem” (1832) Writer
- “Loss of Breath” (1832) Writer
- “Metzengerstein” (1832) Writer
- “The Duc de L’Omelette” (1832) Writer
- “MS. Found in a Bottle” (1833) Writer
- “Serenade” (1833) Writer
- “The Coliseum” (1833) Writer
- “The Assignation” (1834) Writer
- “Berenice” (1835) Writer
- “Bon-Bon” (1835) Writer
- “Hymn” (1835 entry) Writer
- “King Pest” (1835) Writer
- “Lionizing” (1835) Writer
- “Morella” (1835) Writer
- “Shadow—A Parable” (1835) Writer
- “The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall” (1835) Writer
- “To F——s S. O——d” (1835/1845) Writer
- “Four Beasts in One” (1836) Writer
- “Bridal Ballad” (1837) Writer
- “Mystification” (1837) Writer
- “Sonnet — To Zante” (1837) Writer
- “A Predicament” (1838 entry) Writer
- “How to Write a Blackwood Article” (1838) Writer
- “Ligeia” (1838) Writer
- “Silence—A Fable” (1838) Writer
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) Writer
- “The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion” (1839) Writer
- “The Devil in the Belfry” (1839) Writer
- “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) Writer
- “The Haunted Palace” (1839 entry) Writer
- “The Man That Was Used Up” (1839) Writer
- “William Wilson” (1839) Writer
- “Silence” (1840) Writer
- “The Business Man” (1840) Writer
- “The Man of the Crowd” (1840) Writer
- “Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling” (1840) Writer
- “A Descent into the Maelström” (1841) Writer
- “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” (1841) Writer
- “The Colloquy of Monos and Una” (1841) Writer
- “The Island of the Fay” (1841) Writer
- “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) Writer
- “Three Sundays in a Week” (1841) Writer
- “Eleonora” (1842) Writer
- “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) Writer
- The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842) Writer
- “The Oval Portrait” (1842) Writer
- “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1842) Writer
- “Diddling” (1843) Writer
- “Eulalie” (1843) Writer
- “Lenore” (1843) Writer
- “The Black Cat” (1843) Writer
- “The Conqueror Worm” (1843 entry) Writer
- “The Gold-Bug” (1843) Writer
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” (1843) Writer
- “To One in Paradise” (1843) Writer
- “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” (1844) Writer
- “Dream-Land” (1844) Writer
- “Mesmeric Revelation” (1844) Writer
- “The Angel of the Odd” (1844) Writer
- “The Balloon-Hoax” (1844) Writer
- “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.” (1844) Writer
- “The Oblong Box” (1844) Writer
- “The Premature Burial” (1844) Writer
- “The Purloined Letter” (1844) Writer
- “The Spectacles” (1844) Writer
- “‘Thou Art the Man’” (1844) Writer
- “Epigram for Wall Street” (1845) Writer
- “Some Words with a Mummy” (1845) Writer
- “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845) Writer
- “The Imp of the Perverse” (1845) Writer
- “The Power of Words” (1845) Writer
- “The Raven” (1845) Writer
- “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether” (1845) Writer
- “The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade” (1845) Writer
- “The Valley of Unrest” (1845) Writer
- “To F——” (1845) Writer
- “A Valentine” (1846) Writer
- “The Cask of Amontillado” (1846) Writer
- “The Sphinx” (1846) Writer
- “The Domain of Arnheim” (1847) Writer
- “To M. L. S.” (1847) Writer
- “Ulalume” (1847) Writer
- “An Enigma” (1848) Writer
- “Eldorado” (1848) Writer
- “The Bells” (1848) Writer
- “To Helen” (1848) Writer
- “A Dream Within a Dream” (1849) Writer
- “Annabel Lee” (1849) Writer
- “For Annie” (1849) Writer
- “Hop-Frog” (1849) Writer
- “Landor’s Cottage” (1849) Writer
- “Mellonta Tauta” (1849) Writer
- “To My Mother” (1849) Writer
- “Von Kempelen and His Discovery” (1849) Writer
- “X-ing a Paragrab” (1849) Writer
Other
The following make direct references to the Edgar Allan Poe tag.
- “H. P. Lovecraft” tag description
- Fantasy with and without consistency
- “La vie antérieure” (1855)
- The Night Land (1912)
- “The Gernsback Continuum” (1981)
- Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage (2006)
- Altered Carbon (2018)