Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantics. He is best known for his tales of the macabre and his poems, as well as being one of the early practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of Gothic and Detective fiction (Crime fiction) in the United States.

External links

• Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site - Poe's Spring Garden home
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Poe's complete works and a wealth of biographical and critical material, including a review of the known facts about Poe's death
• Full text of Poe's poems
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• PoeStories.com - A well organized site with summaries, quotes, and full text of Poe's short stories, a Poe timeline, and image gallery. Stories have linked vocabulary words and definitions for educational reading.
• Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards Database at the Mystery Writers of America web site
• The Poe Decoder: An extremely useful site relating to some of the works of Edgar Allan Poe
• Raven Beer - The web site of the Baltimore-Washington Beer Works
• Peter Hammill album The Fall of the House of Usher
• Ravenchase Adventures - A unique company that creates customized treasure hunts using riddles, anagrams, puzzles, planted actors, gadgets and ciphers.
• The Poe Perplex