Edgar Allan Poe

Author 574 / Writer 47 · 1704 – 2026 · 🎬 47 📖 574 · 🇺🇸 United States

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is 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 of early American literature. Poe was one of the country's first successful practitioners of the short story, and is generally considered to be one of the pioneers 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 exclusively through writing, which resulted in a financially difficult life and career.

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Highlights

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 52 poems, 4 essays]

1938

Descent into the Maelström

1936

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [16 stories]

1936

Frequent Collaborators

Nathaniel Hawthorne

91 shared

Ambrose Bierce

74 shared

Mark Twain

63 shared

William Faulkner

49 shared

Herman Melville

44 shared

Arthur Conan Doyle

43 shared

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🎬 Movies

The Raven

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1935

The Black Cat

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1934

📖 Books

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe [67 stories, 52 poems, 4 essays]

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1938

Descent into the Maelström

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1936

Tales of Mystery and Imagination [16 stories]

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1936

Representative Selections, With Introduction, Bibliography, And Notes

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1935

Hidden Treasures in Literature - Book Two

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1934

The Purloined Letter

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1931

The Selected Poetry and Prose of Edgar Allan Poe [32 stories, 42 poems, 11 essays]

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1931

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The raven, The fall of the house of Usher, and other poems and tales

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1930

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Tales (Cask of Amontillado / Descent Into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Gold Bug / Ligeia / Masque of the Red Death / Murders in the Rue Morgue / Pit and the Pendulum / Purloined Letter / William Wilson)

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1930

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