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.

Poe as a character

Poe is also featured as a character in several works of fiction:

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• When It Was Moonlight, a short story by Manly Wade Wellman appeared in the Feb 1940 issue of Unknown
• Child of Night (1975) by Anne Edwards
• Evermore (1978) a novel by Barbara Steward
• Poe Must Die (1978) a novel by Marc Olden
• The Man Who Was Poe (1989) a juvenile novel by Avi
• The Black Throne (1990) a novel by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen
• The Phantom comic strip (2000) written by Tony De Paul and drawn by César Spadari