Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

He is famous for his poems and short stories such as The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.

So, who's a fan?

Oh, me, me, me!

I had a couple of his collections! I love The Raven!

I read one of his works one time. I can't remember the story or poem of it, but I remember reading it in. . .seventh grade, I think. And I wasn't into that kind of stuff, but the cover of his book attracted me. :tehe:

Yeah, I'm one of those people who doesn't like to read things like Shakespeare or Poe, but I've been planning on giving both their stuff a chance.

Gotta love Poe. "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The House of Usher" are my favourite stories of his.
I love that "The Pit and the Pendulum" relies solely on senses. It's cool. And the torture devices are just masterpieces of insanity. Only coulda come outta his twisted mind.

I find his stuff a bit verbose.
I want to like it, but I hut it's hard for me to enjoy it.

I think he's okay, but I'm not over-excited about his work.
I'm just not a fan of Gothic fiction.

Bloodraine:

I find his stuff a bit verbose.
I want to like it, but I hut it's hard for me to enjoy it.

I know what you mean. Gothic stuff is like that though. Takes a bit of getting used to.

Wow, some replies!

My favorites are The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Mystery of Rue Morgue, story-wise.

Poem-wise, I'd have to say A Dream Within a Dream and The Bells are my favorites.

But, of course, I haven't read all of his works so that's all subject to change.

To be honest, when I read The Pit and the Pendulum, I didn't really understand it. :oops: I plan on re-reading it a little while from now and seeing if maybe then I'll understand it better.

I LOVE Edgar Allen Poe. My all time favorite is The Fall of The House of Usher. I'll definitely be back in this thread when I have more time.

^ That was a really good one, too. I actually got to see that performed. My school was one of many who went to this opera house to watch five short story plays; the first one was The Fall of the House of Usher, by Poe. Nobody told us what the plays were (except for one, she just didn't know the other four) so when they announced that I was so happy, even though I hadn't finished it at the time.

It was so awesome. Pretty much everyone said it was their favorite play told when asked afterwards. :con:

It's definitely one of the spookiest of his stories.

^ Kind of...
To be honest, I thought The Cask of Amontillado and The Black Cat were scarier, though. :|
But I still find Usher quite frightening.

We're starting Edgar Allen Poe in English on Monday. :weird

^ :omfg:

That's not fair!
We have him in our anthologies but we aren't going to read it.
Even though I've begged at least twice to do so.

one of the best authors ever! so scary, so different. the words are so charming...

vanete druse.:

^ :omfg:

That's not fair!
We have him in our anthologies but we aren't going to read it.
Even though I've begged at least twice to do so.

He did William Wilson in 9th grade when we studied the fantastic vs the fabulous.
It wasn't in the text-book but we had a really cool teacher so we worked on different-more interesting texts than the curriculum ones.
But she left the next year so we got back to boring texts. T_T

"One's a drunk, the other's a psychopath. Great story!"

The Cask of Amontillado, ftw.

Alone is my favourite poem of all time

I LOVE Edgar A. Poe (since he never liked his "middle" name, he always signed it Edgar A. Poe). I do not have a have a favourite poem or short story by him but feel a connection. I even did my term paper on him in my Junior Year of high school. I wish there was more known about him and his life.

I know it's sad that he died, but when I read about the way in which he died, I was dying of laughter. I know it sounds awful, but heres the quote from this little writer's book I have:

"Edgar Allan Poe accidentally drank himself to death by systematically stumbling into various Baltimore polling places and repeatedly casting ballots in order to get the free voting-day drinks traditionally offered at the time."

Apparently this is just an urban myth, but I could totally see Poe doing that. :tehe: