Questions tagged [edgar-allan-poe]
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author with a wide collection of published works (mainly poems and short stories) covering every genre from slapstick humour to Gothic horror.
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What is the fictional location of the House of Usher in various versions?
I have always believed that in Poe's original story the House of Usher would have been somewhere in the British Isles or elsewhere in Europe.
Usher is a English language family name, from the ...
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What inspired Edgar Allan Poe's submarine?
There is a February 1845 story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, in which he recites a long litany of natural wonders, which are explained in his footnotes to the text, ...
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Comic featuring an amalgamation of Edgar Allan Poe stories
I read this comic around 2010 or so, where a detective is tasked with solving a string of murders and disappearances happening around London. The comic was essentially an amalgamation of Edgar Allan ...
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When was the first time that a human skull with a black raven sat upon it was used to refer to Edgar Allan Poe?
I am curious about when was the first time (novel, tale, paint, drawing, etc.) that the iconic human skull/raven motif was used to refer to the Master of the Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe?
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What adaptation of "The Fall of the House of Usher" did I see in the 1980s?
I remember watching, as a child, in the early or mid 1980s, what I thought was a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." I don't think we saw the beginning; it was ...
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Is there an Edgar Allan Poe Story about a clock tower as per the film, "Twixt"?
Twixt is a 2011 Francis Ford Coppola film about a writer exploring a mysterious mass murder in a small town that boasts an odd clock tower with seven faces, all with different times. One of the plot ...
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