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Did you know ...that, in addition to horror fiction, Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on interior decorating called "The Philosophy of Furniture"? First published in 1840, the essay is the basis for a recreated room at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia.
Did you know ...that noted Poe biographer Kenneth Silverman won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Cotton Mather? The Life and Times of Cotton Mather was published in 1984, seven years before Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
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Did you know ...that, one of Poe's earliest poems, "Spirits of the Dead," first collected in Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827, features a narrator who is dead?
Did you know ...that Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, may have been inspired by explorer Jeremiah Reynolds and that half of the novel's 16th chapter comes from a report Reynolds gave to Congress?
Did you know ...that The Alan Parsons Project's debut album Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976) is a concept album based completely on Poe works?
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Did you know ...that Thomas Holley Chivers, who became an early biographer and defender of Edgar Allan Poe, was once asked by Poe to be a financial backer and co-editor of The Stylus, a journal that Poe intended to launch?
Did you know ...the short story A Predicament and the poem "Bridal Ballad" are the only works by Poe that have a woman as the narrator?
Did you know ...that the earliest film version of Poe's life was a silent film called The Raven in 1915 starring Henry B. Walthall?
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Did you know ...that Edgar Allan Poe's literary influence in France was kick-started by two translations of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which did not credit its original author?
Did you know ...that when Poe was reburied in 1875 (pictured), they accidentally first dug up the body of a 19-year old American Civil War veteran Philip Mosher?
Did you know ...that "The Raven" was inspired in part by Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge?
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Did you know ...that Poe has two different grave markers at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground in Baltimore, Maryland?
Did you know ...that Edgar Allan Poe considered his nonfiction essay Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848) to be his "masterpiece" and more important than the discovery of gravity?
Did you know ...that the true cause of the death of Edgar Allan Poe is still unknown? Theories include rabies, cholera, and murder.
