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“It’s because I liked Edgar Allan Poe’s stories so much that I began to make suspense films.”
- Alfred Hitchcock
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold."
- Klingon Proverb
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“Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest — I will say the greatest”
- William Friedkin
Director of The Exorcist
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One day she accompanied me, upon some household errand, into the cellar of the old building which our poverty compelled us to inhabit.
- From The Black Cat
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Virginia Clemm Poe's Deathbed
The Poe Cottage in the Bronx
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"And when one is in the Bad Lands he feels as if they somehow look just exactly as Poe’s tales and poems sound.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
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"Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?”
- Aurthur Conan Doyle
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"Tis some visitor, tapping at my chamber door."
From The Raven
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Third floor of Poe's former home.
Baltimore, MD
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At his death, he had no grand houses or money,
yet Poe left behind an estate of untold riches,
and we are his very fortunate heirs.”
- Jeffrey A. Savoye
The key found in Poe's pocket at his death.
On display at The Poe Museum in Virginia
