Edgar Allan Poe in popular culture

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Main article: Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe has appeared in popular culture as a character in books, films and comics.

1 Fiction
2 Comics
3 Film and TV
4 See also
5 References

[edit] Fiction

"Revenant", a short story by Walter de la Mare, first published in The Wind Blows Over, 1936, in which Poe listens to a modern lecture on his life & works, then takes the lecturer to task for making facile judgements.
"When It Was Moonlight", a short story by Manly Wade Wellman appeared in the February 1940 issue of Unknown
"Richmond, Late September, 1849", a short story by Fritz Leiber, first published in Fantastic, February 1969, in which Poe meets a woman claiming to be the sister of Charles Baudelaire but who may in fact be Death.
A Singular Conspiracy (1974) by Barry Perowne; A fictional treatmtent of the unaccounted period from January to May of 1844, in which Poe, under an assumed name, visits Paris in a failed effort to join French volunteer soldiers headed to aid Poland against Russia, instead meeting the young Charles Baudelaire and designing a conspiracy to expose Baudelaire's stepfather to blackmail, to free up Baudelaire's captive patrimony.
Child of Night (1975) by Anne Edwards
Evermore (1978), a novel by Barbara Steward
Poe Must Die (1978), a novel by Marc Olden
"In the Sunken Museum" (1981),a short story by Gregory Frost, appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine
The Man Who Was Poe (1989), a juvenile novel by Avi
The Hollow Earth (1990), a novel by Rudy Rucker in which Poe explores the inhabited center of the world
The Black Throne (1990), a novel by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen
Route 666 (1993), a satirical cyberpunk novel in the Dark Future series by Kim Newman (writing as Jack Yeovil), features a ramshackle Eddy Poe chanelling Cthulhu.
The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe (1997) by George Egon Hatvary, features Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin befriending the author and subsequently investigating his mysterious death.
Nevermore (1999), The Hum Bug (2001), The Mask of Red Death (2004), and The Tell-Tale Corpse (2006) novels by Harold Schechter
The American Boy (2003) by Andrew Taylor an historical mystery story featuring Poe as a schoolboy in England.
The Poe Shadow (2006) by Matthew Pearl, a novel which revisits the strange events surrounding Poe's death.
The Lemony Snicket book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, have Mr. Poe, with his children Edgar and Albert, as a guardian of the Baudelaire children.
The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe is often referred to in Robert Rankin's The Brentford Trilogy books.
Edgar & Ellen children's novel by Charles Ogden

[edit] Comics

Batman: Nevermore (2003) is an Elseworlds mini-series from DC Comics in which Batman teams up with Poe to solve a number of murders.

[edit] Film and TV

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942); Poe is played by John Shepherd (later known as Shepperd Strudwick).
The Man with a Cloak (1951), a film in which a hard drinking Poe (Joseph Cotten) masquerades incognito in 1848 New York - and helps a young French girl secure her inheritance.
Danza macabra (1964) horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti; Poe is played by Silvano Tranquilli.
Torture Garden (1967) horror film directed by Freddie Francis; Poe is played by Hedger Wallace.
Nella stretta morsa del ragno (1971) horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti; Poe is played by Klaus Kinski.
Gas-s-s-s (1971) had Edgar Allan Poe riding a motorcycle.
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974); Poe is portrayed by Robert Walker Jr..
Tale of a Vampire (1992) horror film directed by Shimako Sato; Kenneth Cranham plays "Edgar", Suzanna Hamilton is Virginia and her reincarnation Anne, and Julian Sands is Alex, the vampire who completes the triangle.
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1999), where Poe is played by actor "Edgar Allan Poe IV" in the episode "Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace." Edgar Allan Poe IV claims Edgar Allan Poe as his ancestor.
Monkeybone (2001), saw Edgar Allan Poe IV return as Poe again.
In the episode "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II" (2006) of The Venture Bros., Brock Samson, Hank, and Dean, team up with Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Caligula, Brock Samson (past), and Sigmund Freud.
The independent film The Death of Poe (2006) focuses on the author's last days.
The 2007 Masters of Horror episode "The Black Cat" wove elements of Poe's life in with the story of the same name. Poe was played Jeffrey Combs, a horror movie veteran who has worked closely on a number of Stuart Gordon's (the director) previous projects.
Poe is an upcoming film written and directed by Sylvester Stallone. It is scheduled for a 2008 release. ^[1]