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70 unusual facts about Edgar Allan Poe


1889 College Football All-America Team

Edgar Allan Poe (1871–1961): Princeton's quarterback, Poe was named after his relative and celebrated poet Edgar Allan Poe.

Above the Weeping World

The album's lyrics have been influenced (and occasionally taken) from classic poets like Hölderlin, Edgar Allan Poe and Finnish classic Eino Leino.

Antoine Galland

The most famous and eloquent encomiums of The Thousand and One Nights - by Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey, Stendhal, Tennyson, Edgar Allan Poe, Newman - are from readers of Galland's translation.

Art Poe

He was one of the Poe Brothers, six celebrated American football players - second cousins, twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe - to play football at Princeton in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Arthur "Art" Poe (March 22, 1879 – April 15, 1951) was an American football player and businessman, and one of six celebrated Poe brothers - second cousins, twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe - to play football at Princeton in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Arvède Barine

She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel, the political issues of the day, and the fantastic literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Batman: Masque

As Batman chases after the third, the fight moves to the Gotham City Opera House, where a performance of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" is being held.

Bernardino Zapponi

Interested solely in screen adaptations of work by Edgar Allan Poe, Eger rejected the proposal.

Bostonian

Edgar Allan Poe, who used "A Bostonian" as his signature for his first publication, Tamerlane and Other Poems

Cabine C

A major influence on the Brazilian underground post-punk scenery, the band was characterized by its gloomy, ethereal Goth-esque instrumentation reminiscent of bands such as The Cure, Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division, and Edgar Allan Poe-influenced themes and lyrics.

Cadaeic Cadenza

The first part of Cadaeic Cadenza is slightly changed from an earlier version, "Near a Raven", which was a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Castle of Blood

A journalist challenges Edgar Allan Poe on the authenticity of his stories, which leads to him accepting a bet from Lord Blackwood to spend the night in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve.

Charles E. May

Charles E. May has published a number of scholarly books on short stories: Short Stories Theories, The Modern European Short Story, Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of the Short Fiction, Fiction's Many Worlds, and The New Short Story Theories - and over 200 articles to such journals as Studies in Short Fiction, Style, and The Minnesota Review.

Claudio Baglioni

Between 1965 and 1968 he composed a musical suite to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled Annabel Lee, made a test recording for RCA, released his first album Claudio Baglioni.

Colin Dayan

She has written extensively on prison law and torture, Caribbean culture and literary history, as well as on Haitian poetics, Edgar Allan Poe, and the history of slavery.

D. Wayne Mitchell

Selected performances include Edgar Allan Poe in The Death of Edgar Allan Poe (2010), Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad (2009), George in The Daemon of Darby Castle (2009), Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (2008), B7 in The Head That Wouldn't Die (2007), Estragon in Waiting for Godot (2003), and originating the role of The Abbot in The Witch of Greythorn.

Daniel Haller

Among many other credits, Haller designed the deceptively opulent sets for nearly all of Roger Corman's critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe film series, including House of Usher (1960) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).

Deer Park Tavern

The St. Patrick’s Inn was said to house famous historical figures such as George Washington and in 1843 Edgar Allan Poe stayed a night here.

Dynamic debugging technique

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was "HACTRN" ("hack-tran"); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," The HACTRN.

English wine cask units

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".

Evil Calls: The Raven

Evil Calls is the first in a pair or trilogy of Raven films, inspired by "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Gilad Hesseg

One of his most recent compositions set to the words of Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe has been performed by the Concora Choir - Connecticut's Premier Professional Choir, Conducted by Maestro Richard Coffey and by the Jerusalem Academy of Music Chamber Choir Conducted by Maestro Stanley Sperber.

Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light

Harry Clarke brought his expertise in working in fine decorative detail in glass to his book illustrations, most notably in the tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Edgar Allan Poe where he is compared to Aubrey Beardsley and which are featured in the film and paralleled with German Expressionist cinema of the time.

Hedda Eulenberg

1901 J.C.C. Bruns published her ten volumes of the translations of Edgar Allan Poe's works.

Henry David Leslie

Some of these became very popular, including the trio "O memory", "The Pilgrims", and "Annabelle Lee" set to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

James Figg

James Figg's great-grandson appears as a central character in the Marc Olden novel Poe Must Die and appears alongside other historical figures including Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens.

Jean Epstein

Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, Epstein directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.

Jesse Poe

Jesse Poe is a distant relative of the literary figure Edgar Allan Poe.

Jonathan Gems

Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

Joseph Holbrooke

Holbrooke was fascinated by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe which deal with the supernatural and the macabre, eventually producing over thirty compositions which he referred to as his "Poeana".

La chute de la maison Usher

La chute de la maison Usher is the French translation of the title of Edgar Allan Poe's tale The Fall of the House of Usher (1839).

Lenore Ulric

He reportedly named his daughter Lenore due to his fondness for the Edgar Allan Poe poem, "The Raven".

Leonard Slatkin

Slatkin's compositions include The Raven (1971) for narrator and orchestra after Edgar Allan Poe.

Louis Bayard

His next novel, The Pale Blue Eye, is a murder mystery set at West Point in 1830, where the young Edgar Allan Poe was a cadet.

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

The song uses surreal imagery, some of which recalls Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and the biblical Book of Daniel.

This image recalls Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", but is also a symbol of the lover's vulnerability in spite of her strength.

Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts

Sites detailed include a graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe once walked and the inspiration for Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House".

Mackenzie Rosman

Rosman plays the role of Loreli in the 2009 film The Tomb, based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls

Theodor W. Adorno placed it, alongside Edgar Allan Poe’s Pym, among the "greatest works" of "fantastic art".

Nachtstücke

The mechanical quality of the middle part suggests an ‘automaton'. (The mechanism winds down at the ritardando, Bb. 93-94). The idea of an artificial ‘person’ haunted Romantic imagination and 'automatons' appear frequently in writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann or Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49).

Nemo me impune lacessit

The motto appears as an inscription on the rim of the 1984 and 1994 "Scottish" editions of the British one pound coin and is also referenced in the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado" (Poe was adopted by a Scottish merchant).

"The Cask of Amontillado" - a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, where Nemo me impune lacessit is the family motto of the character Montresor.

Nikita Koshkin

Koshkin's most celebrated guitar work is "Usher-Waltz." a piece inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher, in which Poe wrote, "I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar." Koshkin's piece was written for the famed guitarist Vladislav Blaha.

Nikolay Glazkov

He was also noted for his lighthearted jokey verse, such as a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" where the narrator, after being made quite gloomy by the raven's predictions of woe decides to test him by asking whether he knows any cities in Chile.

P. Shane Mitchell

His unpublished, but frequently produced works include stage adaptations of horror classics such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Monkey's Paw, The Witch of the Graythorn, as well as many of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Pat LoBrutto

The walls were lined with popular fiction and non-fiction; Greek and Roman classics; beautifully bound volumes from the 19th Century; complete sets of Shakespeare, Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Paul R. Abramson

Chris Marker's "La Jetee" (1962), Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" and Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" (1977–1982) are obvious influences.

Philip Ardagh

Ardagh once described the Snicket books as being more an homage to Edgar Allan Poe, while his own Eddie Dickens books were an homage to Charles Dickens.

Poe no Ichizoku

The two main characters, Edgar Portsnell and Allan Twilight, as well as the family are named after Edgar Allan Poe.

Rapid Heart Pictures

In 2007, DeCoteau and Rapid Heart worked on an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Ravenchase

Ravenchase was named in tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Richmond, Virginia for a time and was an avid code and cipher enthusiast, and also a formative influence on popularizing the idea of buried treasure, treasure hunting and mystery.

Rick Carton

His art for Edgar & Ellen comprises dark sketches with apparent homages to Edgar Allan Poe.

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Their first three shows, "Hyperbole," "The Poe Play" (based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe), and "Pip" (based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens) were performed on campus.

Samuel Poe

They were also second cousins, twice removed, of the celebrated poet Edgar Allan Poe, who died in 1849.

Scott Gustafson

His goal with Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allan Poe was to introduce young readers to the work of Edgar Allan Poe in hopes they would explore his writings.

Severn Teackle Wallis

He may have been an acquaintance of the budding poet and author Edgar Allan Poe along with his friend John Pendleton Kennedy.

Shadow of the Raven

This time the composers Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski honor Edgar Allan Poe, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other tales of suspense and horror, as well as the famous poem "The Raven".

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

The movie claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story.

Spam Lit

Some of the snippets are original content, others are passages from public domain works (such as Edgar Allan Poe and The Bible), and others are conglomerations of several creative public domain works, which are often copied from the internet.

Team Sleep

More so than the Deftones, many of Team Sleep's themes and lyrics are fantastical and imaginative in nature, drawing from such literary sources as Edgar Allan Poe and historical events like the Jonestown Massacre.

The Dearborn Inn

Guests today can still enjoy a stay in the reproduction homes of famous Americans: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Barbara Fritchie, Oliver Wolcott, and Patrick Henry.

The House of Usher

The House of Usher is a 2006 thriller based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Tiger Army II: Power of Moonlite

"Annabel Lee" references the popular poem of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.

Tommaso Landolfi

His work reveals the clear influence of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Gogol.

Ulrich Horstmann

Ulrich Horstmann finished his studies of English and Philosophy in 1974 with a doctoral thesis on Edgar Allan Poe.

Umbracle

Unlike Cuadecuc, Umbracle features several scenes of synchronized sound, including a notable scene where Christopher Lee recites Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and sings opera in an empty theatre, and a lengthy sequence of Spanish filmmakers discussing censorship in their country very frankly, their statements later reinforced by a nearly 15-minute segment from a pro-Franco film.

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa

"Never trust the Obvious" receives two remixes: "The Innocence of Devils: Alone", which contains a recitation of author Edgar Allan Poe's Alone; and "Alone II", an extended version.

Ware Tetralogy

Set in 2030-2031, ten years after the events of Software, Wetware focuses on the attempt of an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed bopper named Berenice to populate Earth with a robot/human hybrid called a meatbop.

White and Black Blues

Ursull sings that "When someone talks to me about skin colour/I have the blues which sends shivers down my spine/I feel as if I'm in a tale by Edgar Allan Poe".

Zenon Przesmycki

Przesmycki published many translations of renowned French poets, including Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, as well as Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Charles Swinburne from English.


Aharon Amir

Amir translated over 300 books into Hebrew, including English and French classics by Melville, Charles Dickens, Camus, Lewis Carroll, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Emily Brontë and O. Henry.

Albert Dubout

Dubout continued on to illustrate numerous editions of books by Boileau, Beaumarchais, Mérimée, Rabelais, Villon, Cervantes, Balzac, Racine, Voltaire, Rostand, Poe, and Courteline.

Alexander Veljanov

2006: Edgar Allan Poe Projekt - Visionen (Double Album CD2), with "Lied Für Annabel Lee"

Bilal Xhaferri Publishing House

translation and publication of world-known authors like Alfred de Musset, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, Katherine Mansfield, Christina Rossetti, etc.

Carl Gottlieb Reissiger

A famous piece known as Weber's Last Waltz was actually written by Reißiger (one of his opus 26 Danses brillantes) and is mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) as one of Roderick Usher's favorite pieces of music; it is also the title of a 1912 film.

Clarice Lispector

She began to paint and intensified her activity as a translator, publishing translations of Agatha Christie, Oscar Wilde, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Crawl to China

The lyrics of the song "The Tell-Tale Heart" are based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title.

Democracy in America

In spending several chapters lamenting the state of the arts in America, he fails to envision the literary Renaissance that would shortly arrive in the form of such major writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

Émile Lauvrière

A doctor in Literature specializing in the English domain, he wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, entitled Edgar Poe, un génie morbide later published under the title Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre ; étude de psychologie pathologique (Paris: Alcan, 1904).

George Lippard

The trial took place only two months after Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a story based on other murder trials employing the insanity defense; Mercer's defense attorney openly acknowledged the "object of ridicule" which an insanity defense had become.

Gresham Poe

He, and all of his brothers were also second cousins, twice removed of American author Edgar Allan Poe.

Horror-of-personality

Examples include the stories of Patricia Highsmith and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as classic films like Psycho and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?.

José María Álvarez

He has also translated into Spanish the work of, among others, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare, François Villon, the complete works of Constantine P. Cavafy, and the poems from the years of madness of Friedrich Hölderlin.

Julianna Barwick

The title of the album references the ancient drug of forgetfulness, found in the works of Greek literature and Edgar Allan Poe, which erases sorrow.

Kenneth Silverman

Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (New York: Harper Collins, 1991) ISBN 0-06-016715-7.

Le diable dans le beffroi

Le diable dans le beffroi (The Devil in the Belfry) is an unfinished comic opera in one act by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Devil in the Belfry.

Lucretia Maria Davidson

Davidson was praised, with varying levels of enthusiasm, by such notable figures as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Southey, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

Nazi Literature in the Americas

Edelmira, among other ventures, attempts to create a room based on Edgar Allan Poe's essay "Philosophy of Furniture" and founds The Fourth Reich in Argentina, a literary magazine and publishing house which publish works by several of the writers appearing later in the book.

Norwegian Sea

It was described in the 13th century in the Old Norse Poetic Edda and remained an attractive subject for painters and writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Moers and Jules Verne.

Poeville, Nevada

John Poe, a professional promoter from Michigan allegedly related to Edgar Allan Poe, discovered rich gold and silver veins in 1862 on the slopes of Peavine Mountain.

Ray Russell

Russell was also one of the screenwriters for Roger Corman's X (also known as X: The Man With the X-Ray Eyes) and The Premature Burial (based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story).

Reckoning Night

Many songs act as a Gothic short story akin to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Richard L. Bare

Born in Modesto, California, he attended USC School of Cinematic Arts where he directed his most notable student film, The Oval Portrait, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story.

Scarlet's Well

Though most of the material has been written by Bid, collaborators have included Alex Kapranos ("The Spell" on the "Strange Letters" album) and David Shrigley ("Maybe", though this song only appeared on his "Worried Noodles" album); past and present members of the band have also contributed, with some lyrics made of poems by Christina Rossetti, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

Judging from his works, major influences on his style were Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Allan Poe, Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and H. G. Wells.

The Grave Digger

The lyrics are about dark concepts, some are inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Trough Creek State Park

Edgar Allan Poe is rumored to have visited the area and found inspiration in the ravens that lived on the cliffs along Great Trough Creek just prior to writing his poem "The Raven".

Wild Nights!

As the title suggests, the stories are about the final days in the lives of authors Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway.

William Samuel Henson

Henson appeared as a character in a fictional newspaper story by Edgar Allan Poe, which recounted a supposed trans-Atlantic balloon trip, in which Henson was one of the passengers on the balloon.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

The film uses many elements from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat", and acknowledges this influence in the film's opening credits.