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[[Edgar Allan Poe]] has appeared in [[popular culture]] as a character in books, comics, film, and other media. Besides his works, the legend of Poe himself has fascinated people for generations. His appearances in popular culture often envision him as a sort of "mad genius" or "tormented artist", exploiting his personal struggles.<ref>Neimeyer, Mark. "Poe and Popular Culture," collected in ''The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe''. Cambridge University Press, 2002. {{ISBN|0-521-79727-6}} p. 209</ref> Many depictions of Poe interweave elements of his life with his works, in part due to Poe's frequent use of first-person [[narrator]]s, suggesting an erroneous assumption that Poe and his characters are identical.<ref>Gargano, James W. "The Question of Poe's Narrators," collected in ''Poe: A Collection of Critical Essays'', edited by Robert Regan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. p. 165</ref>

This article focuses specifically on the historical Edgar Allan Poe making appearances in fiction, television, and film.

==Comics==
There have been over three hundred comic book adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's works as of 2008, possibly more than that of any other American writer.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe: Comic Book Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, 1943–2007.|last=Inge|first=M. Thomas|publisher=The Edgar Allan Poe Museum|year=2008|location=Richmond, VA|pages=14}}</ref> Since then, the number of Poe adaptations in comics has exceeded that of any other comparable period. In addition to direct adaptations, a number of comics have taken Poe as a central character or as the inspiration for characters.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWBiCQAAQBAJ&q=thomas+inge+incredible+mr.+poe&pg=PA63|title=Drawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works|last1=Tabachnick|first1=Stephen E.|last2=Saltzman|first2=Esther Bendit|date=2015-05-18|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476619767|pages=62|language=en}}</ref>

The list below includes only those comics that feature Poe as a character or the inspiration for a character. It does not include every "cameo" appearance or those comics that use only the image of Poe. 
* In ''Funny Pages'' v.2 #4 ([[Ultem Publications]], 1937) Poe is featured in a three-page semi-biographical sketch called "Edgar Allan Poe: Man of Letters" by Rafael Astarita.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/245/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Funny Pages #v2#4|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''Crown Comics'' #1 (Golfing Inc., 1945) features an adaptation of Poe's "The Oblong Box" in which Poe appears as a passenger aboard the ship on which the story takes place.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/220490/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Crown Comics #1|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
*''Gang Busters #49'' (1948), includes Poe in a story called, "The Mystery that Edgar Allan Poe Solved", which is later reprinted in Detective Comics #417.
* ''Enchanting Love #2'' (Kirby Publishing Co, 1949) includes a story entitled "The Beautiful Annabel Lee", which purports to tell of the historical romance between Poe and [[Virginia Clemm]] whose death inspires the famous poem.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/315279/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Enchanting Love #2|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''Superboy'' #110 (DC Comics, January 1964)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/18164/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Superboy #110|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> includes a main story entitled "The Surrender of Superboy" in which Poe is one of several historical figures summoned from the past to humiliate Superboy.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=M. Thomas|year=2008|pages=56}}</ref>
* ''The Atom #12'' (Superman DC National Comics, April–May 1964), includes a story entitled "The Gold Hunters of '49!" in which the Atom travels back in time to 1849 and meets Poe while solving a mysterious gold robbery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/18309/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: The Atom #12|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> In the story, Poe utilizes his fencing skills, which he supposedly learned during his time at West Point. This may be the earliest comic in which Poe appears as a character in an original story not based upon his life or works.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=Thomas|pages=36}}</ref>
* In the Italian comic book ''[[Zagor (comics)|Zagor]]'', Poe is an agent of the American secret service called "Elsewhere", with a codename "Raven".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/25845/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: Zagor|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* ''Detective Comics'' #417 (DC Comics, November 1971)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/24658/#168700|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Detective Comics #417|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> includes Poe in a story entitled, "The Mystery that Edgar Allan Poe Solved", a reprint of ''Gang Busters #49'' (1948).<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=Thomas|year=2008|pages=58}}</ref>
* ''Ghosts #26'' (National Periodical Publications, May 1974) features a story called "Dark Destiny" by Leo Dorfman which includes Poe as a character.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/27365/#181438|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Ghosts #26|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* In ''Arcade: The Comic Review #7'' (The Print Mint, 1976), a three-page story entitled "The Inheritance of Rufus Griswold" by Spain Rodriquez tells the story of Poe's death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/30246/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Arcade #7|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* In ''Haunted'' # 31 (Charlton Comics, 1977), Poe and Roderick Usher appear as characters in the 9-page story "Subway Stop" by Tom Sutton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/30614/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Haunted #31|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref> The story is reprinted n ''Haunted'' # 56 (Charlton Comics, 1981)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/35446/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Haunted #56|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''Crazy Magazine #73'' (Marvel Comics, April 1981) includes a story called "The Tattletale Heart", a satire of Poe's famous story which includes Poe as a character.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/353389/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Crazy Magazine #73|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* ''Crazy Magazine #89'' (Marvel Comics, August 1982) features a one-page story called "The Raven" in which Poe has writer's block, so his next tale his composed by a raven.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/353405/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Crazy Magazine #89|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* ''Alien Encounters #10'' (Eclipse Comics, December 1986)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/42209/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Alien Encounters #10|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> includes a science fiction story by Ray Bradbury, "The Exiles," in which Poe appears as a character.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=M. Thomas|publisher=2008|pages=61}}</ref>
* Jason Asala's ''Poe v.1'' (Cheese Comics, 1996) is a series that ran for six issues between September 1996 and April 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/5687/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: Poe|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref> It features Poe as a wandering adventurer in search of his lost love, Lenore. In order to save her, he must defeat twelve demons. His adventures become the inspiration for many of his tales and poems, including "The Raven", "The Black Cat", "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather", and "The Bells"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thoughtfulmirth.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/poe/|title=Poe|last=Gordon|first=John|date=2015-06-12|website=Thoughtful Mirth|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref> 
* Jason Asala's ''Poe'' vol. 2 ([[Sirius Entertainment]], 1997) is a continuation of the Cheese Comics series. This one ran irregularly for 24 issues between October 1997 and July 2000. It includes references to "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Von Kempel and His Discover," and "The Balloon Hoax".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/10111/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: Poe|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref> 
* ''Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells'' (Tome Press, 1999)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=46363|title=Edgar Allen Poe's The Bells (1999) – Comic Book DB|website=comicbookdb.com|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> offers a humorous look at Poe's tendency to fall in love with unobtainable women.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=M. Thomas|year=2008|pages=39}}</ref> 
* ''Snake 'n' Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret'' (HarperCollins, 2000) features Poe in a short cartoon, "Two-Fisted Poe", in which he punches a man in the face.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/1531782/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Snake 'n Bacon's Cartoon Cabaret|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> 
* ''The Phantom'' #1282 (Frew Publications, 2001) features a story called "The Baltimore Mystery" detailing a fictional explanation of Poe's death, and the Phantom's role in his last days.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/166953/#toc|title=Grand Comic Database :: Issue :: The Phantom #1282|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> This story may have appeared in print earlier, in ''Fantomen #25'' (Hegmont, Dec. 2000).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/113464/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Fantomen #25/2000|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> 
* ''The Dreaming'' #56 (Vertigo/DC Comics, 2001) features a tale entitled "The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe" centered around Poe's cat who battles a giant predatory worm in order to save Edgar and Virginia Poe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/65948/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: The Dreaming #56|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''Poe'' (Boom! Studios, 2009) was a four-issue limited series featuring the Poe brothers, William and Edgar, investigating a murder that leads them to the House of Usher. The series ran from July-Oct. 2009, and was reprinted in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/38418/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: Poe|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''The Mystery of Mary Rogers'' (NBM, 2001) is volume five in the ''Treasury of Victorian Murder'' graphic novel series, and features an historical re-telling of the real-life murder case on which Poe based his short story, "The Mystery of Marie Roget". Here, Poe appears briefly as a potential suspect in the murder.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/28483/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: The Mystery of Mary Rogers (A Treasury of Victorian Murder)|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
* ''In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe'' ([[2002 in comics|2002]]) by Jonathon Scott Fuqua follows a professor who has discovered the last diary of Poe, allegedly written on the author's deathbed. The diary reveals that Poe's [[artistic inspiration]] came from selling his soul to [[demon]]s. As part of the deal, Poe can only write while in [[Baltimore]]; his attempts to leave that city have dire consequences. The [[graphic novel]] from [[Vertigo Comics]] is illustrated using [[digital illustration]]s and [[photography]] by Steven Park and Stephen John Phillips, respectively.<ref>[http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=1628 DC's profile for the hardcover edition of ''In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041237/http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=1628 |date=2007-09-30 }} (with preview) and [http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=1629 the paperback one] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807114753/http://dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?gn=1629 |date=2007-08-07 }}</ref>
* ''Batman: Nevermore'' (DC Comics, June-Oct. 2003) is an [[Elseworlds]] mini-series from [[DC Comics]] written by [[Len Wein]], with art by [[Guy Davis (comics)|Guy Davis]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/276337/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Batman: Nevermore #1|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> In the story [[Batman]] teams up with Poe to solve a number of murders.<ref>[http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/104951906118274.htm Review of ''Batman: Nevermore'' issue #1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813175210/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/104951906118274.htm |date=2007-08-13 }}, [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105254226620263.htm #2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023021926/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105254226620263.htm |date=2007-10-23 }}, [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105504037698730.htm #3] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021074850/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105504037698730.htm |date=2007-10-21 }}, [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105743604219679.htm #4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813020333/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/105743604219679.htm |date=2007-08-13 }} and [http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/106161201035052.htm #5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023080836/http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/reviews/106161201035052.htm |date=2007-10-23 }}</ref>
* Jill Thompson's graphic novel ''[[Death: At Death's Door]]'' (DC Comics, 2003) includes Poe as a guest in Death's house as Lucifer evicts the citizens of Hell. He is shown, comically, to be in love with Death's sister Despair, who serves as his muse in the book.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/series/24368/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Series :: Death: At Death's Door|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* ''Scooby Doo'' #80 (DC Comics, March 2004)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/243388/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Scooby-Doo #80|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref> features a story called "Cravin' the Raven" in which a Poe lookalike helps the gang solve a mystery.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Incredible Mr. Poe|last=Inge|first=M. Thomas|year=2008|pages=43}}</ref>
* ''Ravenous'' (Speakeasy Comics, 2005) is a graphic novel that adapts several of Poe's stories, but also includes an original story "Ravenous" with a detective character inspired by Poe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=180240|title=Ravenous (2005) OGN SC – Comic Book DB|website=comicbookdb.com|access-date=2017-02-03}}</ref>
* ''The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo'' (2007) by [[Dwight MacPherson]], is a [[webcomic]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080122102627/http://www.chemsetcomics.com/surreal-adventures-of-edgar-allen-poo-chapter-1-canto-1/ The Chemistry Set » SURREAL ADVENTURES OF EDGAR ALLEN POO, Chapter 1, Canto 1<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> originally published on [[DrunkDuck]], which was collected into a [[trade paperback (comics)|trade paperback]] by [[ShadowLine]]. It follows Poe's adventures after he accidentally gets flushed down an outhouse.<ref>[http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=120256 Dwight MacPherson on ''The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016084234/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=120256 |date=2007-10-16 }}, [[Newsarama]], July 10, 2007</ref>
* In [[Kate Beaton]]'s ''[[Hark! A Vagrant]]'' (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011), Poe appears in the cartoon story "Come Dream With Me," in which he receives unsettling fan mail from Jules Verne. The book also includes a story called "The Return of Annabel Lee", featuring Poe's famous character.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/888556/|title=Grand Comics Database :: Issue :: Hark! A Vagrant|website=comics.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref>
*In the Ahoy Comics series, ''[https://comicsahoy.com/series/edgar-allan-poe-snifter-terror Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror]'' (2018-), Poe appears frequently as a "host" character, commenting on adaptations of his work by a variety of artists and writers. His image also appears as a character in many of these adaptations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Various|title=Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror &#124; Ahoy Comics|date=2018|url=https://comicsahoy.com/series/edgar-allan-poe-snifter-terror|journal=Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror|publisher=Ahoy Comics}}</ref>

==Fiction==
* "Revenant" is a short story by [[Walter de la Mare]], first published in ''The Wind Blows Over'' in [[1936 in literature|1936]], in which Poe listens to a modern lecture on his life and works, then takes the lecturer to task for making facile judgments.
* "When It Was Moonlight" is a short story by [[Manly Wade Wellman]] which appeared in the February 1940 issue of ''[[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown]]'', has Poe pausing in the composition of "The Premature Burial" to investigate a genuine local case, only to find himself faced with a vampire.
*"[[The Exiles (Bradbury story)|The Exiles]]" (1949) is a short story by [[Ray Bradbury]], included in his collection of short stories, ''[[The Illustrated Man]]'' (1951), in which Poe is an entity who lives in a refuge on Mars. He is erased from time when his last work is destroyed on Earth.
* "The Gentleman From Paris", a short story by [[John Dickson Carr]], first published in ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]'' (April 1950), features an unidentified Poe, sitting in a bar in New York, solving a Dupin–like mystery for the title character. Poe disappears before he can receive a substantial reward six months before his death.<ref>Reprinted in ''The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits,'' ed. Mike Ashley, Carroll and Graf, New York, 1993, p. 431–454</ref>
* "Richmond, Late September, 1849", a short story by [[Fritz Leiber]], first published in [[Fantastic (magazine)|''Fantastic'']], February 1969, in which Poe meets a woman claiming to be the sister of [[Charles Baudelaire]] but who may in fact be [[Personifications of death|Death]]. Poe died October 7, 1849, in Baltimore.
* "The Man Who Collected Poe" by [[Robert Bloch]] in which a fanatical Poe collector proves to have resurrected (collected) the real Poe and has him locked in his back room writing new Poe-esque stories. It was filmed as an episode of the film [[Torture Garden (film)|''Torture Garden'']], which Bloch wrote.
* ''[[A Singular Conspiracy]]'' ([[1974 in literature|1974]]) by [[Barry Perowne]];  A fictional treatment of the unaccounted period from January to May 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.
* ''[[The Alteration]]'' ([[1976 in literature|1976]]) by [[Kingsley Amis]] is set in an alternative reality where the Protestant Reformation never occurs due to [[Martin Luther]]'s reconciliation with the Church and the birth of Stephen II of England. In the '[[Protestantism|Schismatic]]' Republic of New England, Poe was an acclaimed general who died in a blaze of glory after successfully repelling the combined forces of Louisiana and Mexico in the war of 1848–50; the airship RNEA ''Edgar Allan Poe'' was named for him.
* ''Poe Must Die'' (1978) by [[Marc Olden]] is a novel that features the poet joining forces with an aging English boxer to thwart the plans of an evil occultist who is attempting to find the legendary Throne of Solomon which gives its possessor power rivaling that of God.
*''[[The Last Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe: The Troy Dossier]]'' ([[1978 in literature|1978]]) is a novel by Manny Meyers which features Poe aiding the New York City police department in 1846 to solve a pair of murders.
* "In the Sunken Museum", a short story by Gregory Frost, first published in ''The Twilight Zone Magazine'', May 1981. An account of Poe's famous last days and his enigmatic last utterance.
* "The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe" (1982) by [[Angela Carter]], a short story first published in ''[[Interzone (magazine)|Interzone]]'', and later collected in ''[[Black Venus (short story collection)|Black Venus]]'', traces, with dark humour, the origins of many of the themes in Poe's later fiction to his very early years living with his theatrical mother.
* "Time and Chance", a 1987 short story by [[Eric M. Heideman]] appearing in [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s [[Writers of the Future]] Volume III, features Poe, now Edgar Allan, in a counterfactual reality in which his gambling paid off, in conversation with [[Ambrose Bierce]].
* "No Spot of Ground", a 1989 short story by [[Walter John Williams|Walter Jon Williams]], features Poe, having survived his harrowing experience in Baltimore, leading Southern troops during the [[American Civil War]].  This is not as odd as it seems at first, since Poe did have West Point experience (though brief), and both sides were desperate for men with that kind of background.  In the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] segment, Poe replaces General [[James L. Kemper]] in [[Pickett's Charge]].  Like Kemper, Poe is wounded, but unlike Kemper fights on with [[Robert E. Lee]] until near the end of the war.
* ''The Man Who Was Poe'' ([[1989 in literature|1989]]), a juvenile novel by [[Edward Irving Wortis|Avi]], features a young boy named Edmund befriending [[C. Auguste Dupin]], who is actually Poe himself. Edmund and "Dupin" solve several mysteries in [[Providence, Rhode Island]].
* ''[[The Hollow Earth (novel)|The Hollow Earth]]'' ([[1990 in literature|1990]]), a novel by [[Rudy Rucker]] in which Poe explores the [[Hollow Earth|inhabited center of the world]]
* ''The Black Throne'' (1990), a science fiction novel by [[Roger Zelazny]] and [[Fred Saberhagen]] features Poe as one of the main characters alongside a parallel world alter ego, master sergeant Edgar Perry (Poe's alias when he was in the Army). The novel quotes Poe's poems and uses them as inspiration for the plot; one scene is similar to "[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]".
* ''Route 666'' ([[1993 in literature|1993]]), a satirical cyberpunk novel in the [[Dark Future]] series by [[Kim Newman]] (writing as Jack Yeovil), features a ramshackle Eddy Poe channeling [[Cthulhu]].
* In a separate work by Kim Newman, ''[[The Bloody Red Baron]]'', the second volume of his [[alternate history]] [[Anno Dracula series|''Anno Dracula'' series]], Poe plays a major role. In the novel, he is a vampire tasked to ghost write the autobiography of flying ace [[Manfred von Richthofen]] in the midst of World War I. In the sequel book taking place in 1959, ''[[Dracula Cha Cha Cha (novel)|Dracula Cha Cha Cha]]'', Eddy Poe is mentioned as the screenwriter behind an upcoming film.
* ''The Lighthouse at the End of the World'' by [[Stephen Marlowe]] ([[1995 in literature|1995]]) concentrates on Poe's last week alive and has C. Auguste Dupin trying to solve his disappearance
* ''[[Nevermore (novel)|Nevermore]]'' (1995) by [[William Hjortsberg]], features [[Harry Houdini]] and [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] solving a series of murders, which eerily re-enact the stories of Poe.
* ''[[The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe]]'' ([[1997 in literature|1997]]) by George Egon Hatvary, features Poe's fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin befriending the author and subsequently investigating his mysterious death.
* ''Nevermore'' ([[1999 in literature|1999]]), ''The Hum Bug'' ([[2001 in literature|2001]]), ''The Mask of Red Death'' ([[2004 in literature|2004]]), and ''The Tell-Tale Corpse'' ([[2006 in literature|2006]]) novels by [[Harold Schechter]]. ''Nevermore'' depicts an intelligent, crime-solving Poe teamed up with the adventurous man of action, [[Davy Crockett]].
*''Lenore: The Last Narrative of Edgar Allan Poe'' ([[2002 in literature|2002]]) is a novel by Frank Lovelock that fictionalizes Poe's final days before his death. The story is presented as a delirious dream Poe has while in the hospital. C. August Dupin makes an appearance along with Lenore, depicted as a woman in love with a runaway slave named Reynolds. Lovelock weaves Poe's own letters and works into the story; direct quotes are acknowledged in bold, italicized text with notes on their origins.
* ''The American Boy'' ([[2003 in literature|2003]]) by [[Andrew Taylor (author)|Andrew Taylor]] an historical mystery story featuring Poe as a schoolboy in England.
*''Edgar Allan Poe's San Francisco: Terror Tales of the City'' (2005) by Joseph Covino Jr, a derivative psychological gothic horror suspense thriller perfectly faithful to the style and tradition of Edgar Allan Poe set in contemporary San Francisco.
* ''[[The Poe Shadow]]'' ([[2006 in literature|2006]]) by [[Matthew Pearl]], a novel which revisits the strange events surrounding Poe's death.
* A fictionalized younger Poe was a main character in [[Louis Bayard]]'s ''[[The Pale Blue Eye (novel)|The Pale Blue Eye]]'', published in May 2006. Poe investigates a mysterious death during his time at [[United States Military Academy|West Point]]. Bayard emphasizes the young Poe's drinking habits.
* Poe plays an indirect part in the ''[[Supernatural (U.S. TV series)|Supernatural]]'' spin-off novel ''Supernatural: Nevermore'', in which protagonists [[Dean Winchester|Dean]] and [[Sam Winchester]] investigate a series of murders in New York based on Poe's stories; Sam deduces that the killer is attempting a resurrection ritual to bring Poe back to life to learn the truth about his death.
* ''The Blackest Bird'' ([[2007 in literature|2007]]) by [[Joel Rose]] featured Poe as a main character. The novel correctly follows some of Poe's history in writing and in his personal life.
* A young Edgar Allan Poe, alongside [[Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation|Gullivar Jones]], is the main protagonist of the novel ''Edgar Allan Poe on Mars'' (2007) by [[Jean-Marc Lofficier]] and [[Randy Lofficier]].
* The [[Joyce Carol Oates]] book ''[[Wild Nights!]]'' ([[2008 in literature|2008]]) tells fictionalized versions of the last nights of Edgar Allan Poe, [[Emily Dickinson]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Henry James]] and [[Ernest Hemingway]].
* Edgar Allan Poe is first mistaken for a [[vampire]] and then befriended by [[Abraham Lincoln]] in [[Seth Grahame-Smith]]'s novel ''[[Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (novel)|Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter]]'' (2010).
* The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe is often referred to in [[Robert Rankin]]'s [[The Brentford Trilogy]] books. In ''The Brentford Triangle'', he is summoned to Earth by local postman Small Dave, but he becomes angered by Dave's attempt to control him and by his misinterpretation of C. Auguste Dupin.
* ''Finding Poe'' (2012) by Leigh M. Lane is a fictionalized account of Poe's final days, speculating the role his unfinished work "[[The Light-House]]" may have played in his mysterious death.
* ''Nevermore'' by Brent Monahan (WTF Books, 2012) imagines [[Allan Pinkerton]] investigating Poe's death.
* He appears in the manga ''[[Bungo Stray Dogs|Bungou Stray Dogs]]'' (2012), written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. He is portrayed as a detective and a writer who admires the detective [[Edogawa Ranpo|Ranpo Edogawa]].
* Edgar Allen Poe leads a fellowship of vampire hunters set in the year 1888 in the novel ''Modern Marvels - Viktoriana'' (2013) written by [[Wayne Reinagel]]. The fellowship includes [[Mary Shelley]], [[Jules Verne]], [[H.G. Wells]], [[Bram Stoker]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Nikola Tesla]], [[Harry Houdini]] and [[H. Rider Haggard]].
* ''Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster'' (Oneworld Publications/ Pegasus Books, 2016); ''Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru'' (2018); and ''Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead'' (2020) by Karen Lee Street are books in a mystery trilogy featuring sleuthing duo Edgar Allan Poe and [[C. Auguste Dupin]].
*''The Raven's Tale'' (2019) by Cat Winters is a Young Adult fictionalization of Poe's teen years, complete with a muse named Lenore.
*''His Hideous Heart'' (2019) ed. by [[Dahlia Adler]] is a Young Adult anthology of reimaginings of 13 of Poe's works, and also contains the original stories.

== Nonfiction ==

* ''Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru'' (Running Press/Hachette, 2021), by Catherine Baab-Muguira, a satirical self-help book based on Poe's life and work.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-13 |title=Edgar Allan Poe is The Perfect Literary Self-Help Hero For Our Uncertain Times |url=https://crimereads.com/edgar-allan-poe-is-the-perfect-literary-self-help-hero-for-our-uncertain-times/ |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=CrimeReads |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Film==
[[File:Edgar Allan Poe 1909 D W Griffith G W Bitzer.webm|thumb|thumbtime=1:50|''[[Edgar Allen Poe (film)|Edgar Allen Poe]]'' (1909)]]
* ''[[Edgar Allen Poe (film)|Edgar Allen Poe]]'' {{sic}} ([[1909 in film|1909]]), is a silent film directed by [[D. W. Griffith]].
* ''[[The Raven (1915 film)|The Raven]]'' ([[1915 in film|1915]]), is a fictionalized biography of Poe (played by [[Henry B. Walthall]]). The 57-minute [[silent film]] depicts Poe's falling out with the Allan family, his love of his wife Virginia, and a few [[hallucination]]s caused by [[wine]], one of which seems to inspire his poem "The Raven". Poe is also depicted as owning a "[[negro]]" (as named in the film), despite being in dire poverty.
* In ''[[The Raven (1935 film)|The Raven]]'' ([[1935 in film|1935]]), the uncredited narrator of the "Spirit of Poe" ballet is clearly made up to resemble Poe.{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}}
* ''[[The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe]]'' ([[1942 in film|1942]]); Poe is played by John Shepherd (later known as [[Shepperd Strudwick]]).<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q3988126|title=The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe}}</ref>
* ''[[The Man with a Cloak]]'' ([[1951 in film|1951]]), a film in which a hard drinking Poe ([[Joseph Cotten]]) masquerades as [[C. Auguste Dupin|Dupin]] in 1848 New York – and helps a young French girl secure her inheritance.
* ''[[The Tell-Tale Heart (1960 film)|The Tell-Tale Heart]]'' ([[1960 in film|1960]]) depicts Poe dreaming the story. Poe is played by [[Laurence Payne]].
* ''[[Castle of Blood]]'' ([[1964 in film|1964]]) [[horror film]] directed by [[Antonio Margheriti]]; Poe is played by [[Silvano Tranquilli]].
* ''[[Torture Garden (film)|Torture Garden]]'' ([[1967 in film|1967]]) horror film directed by [[Freddie Francis]]; Poe is played by Hedger Wallace.
* ''[[Gas-s-s-s]]'' ([[1971 in film|1971]]) had Edgar Allan Poe riding a motorcycle.
* ''[[Nella stretta morsa del ragno]]'' (1971) horror film directed by [[Antonio Margheriti]]; Poe is played by [[Klaus Kinski]].
* ''[[The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe]]'' ([[1974 in film|1974]]); Poe is portrayed by [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)|Robert Walker Jr.]]<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q29034193|title=The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe}}</ref>
* ''[[Tale of a Vampire]]'' ([[1992 in film|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.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q110193688|title=Tale of a Vampire}}</ref>
* ''[[Monkeybone]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]]), saw Edgar Allan Poe IV return as his namesake again.
* The film ''[[Descendant (2003 film)|Descendant]]'' ([[2003 in film|2003]]) features two distant relations of Poe, and an appearance of the ghost of Poe himself.
* The independent film ''[[The Death of Poe (film)|The Death of Poe]]'' ([[2006 in film|2006]]) focuses on the author's last days. Poe is portrayed as being forgetful, possibly as a result of an illness, and becomes a victim of [[cooping]].
* ''[[Twixt (film)|Twixt]]'' ([[2011 in film|2011]]) a [[horror film]] directed by [[Francis Ford Coppola]] features [[Ben Chaplin]] as Edgar Allan Poe.
* In the fictional comedy film, ''[[Lives and Deaths of the Poets]]'' (2011) Poe is portrayed by actor, Greg Coale.
* ''[[The Raven (2012 film)|The Raven]]'' ([[2012 in film|2012]]) stars [[John Cusack]] as Poe, in a story about the last days of Poe's life in which he tries to track down a serial killer whose murders parallel deaths in Poe's stories.
* ''[[The Pale Blue Eye]]'' ([[2022 in film|2022]]) is a film adaptation of the 2003 novel by [[Louis Bayard]] featuring [[Harry Melling (actor)|Harry Melling]] as Poe.

==Theatre==
*An opera, ''The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe'', by [[Dominick Argento]], was first staged in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dominick Argento Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe |url=https://www.boosey.com/opera/moreDetails?musicID=3726 |access-date=3 October 2022 |website=Boosey & Hawkes }}</ref>
*Norman George performed as Poe in an original one-man play, ''Poe Alone''. George has played the title roles in A&E Network's ''Biography: The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe'', and other educational films and television and radio documentaries in the United States and Canada.<ref>"Edgar Allan Poe Tribute," Boston Globe, Oct 26, 2003, p.7.</ref><ref>"He's A Poe Pretender Evermore: Norman George Makes Career Of Playing Writer," ''Orlando Sentinel'' reprint of ''New York Times'' article, January 22, 1989. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203558/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-01-22/news/8901220232_1_poe-edgar-allan-norman-george]</ref>
*Lee Presson of [[Lee Presson and the Nails]] has been performing as Poe at the [[Dickens fair|Great Dickens Christmas Fair]] in San Francisco since 1988.
*In the mid-1990s, The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival presented ''Edgar – The Life of Edgar Allan Poe'' by Jack Yuken at five south Florida venues. Kevin Crawford was Poe. R.A. Smith and Heidi Harris co-starred. Kermit Christman directed.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}}
*Actor [[John Astin]], who performed as Gomez in ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' television series, is an ardent admirer of Poe, whom he resembles, and in recent years has starred in a one-man play based on Poe's life and works, ''[[Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight]]''.<ref>[http://www.astin-poe.com/ Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight, starring John Astin<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*''Edgar Allan POE'' is a musical by [[Eric Woolfson]], first premiering at the Abbey Road Studio Showcase in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=POE - the musical |url=https://www.ericwoolfsonmusic.com/poe/home |access-date=18 January 2024}}</ref>
*''The Death of Edgar Allan Poe'' is a play by playwright P. Shane Mitchell.
*In 2005, a reading of the [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]-bound musical ''Poe'' was announced, with a book by David Kogeas and music and lyrics by David Lenchus, featuring [[Deven May]] as Edgar Allan Poe. Plans for a full production have not been announced.
*In early 2007, NYC composer Phill Greenland and book writer/actor Ethan Angelica announced a new Poe stage musical titled ''Edgar'', which uses only Poe's prose and letters as text, and Poe's poems as lyrics.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.edgarallanpoemusical.com/about.html |title=Edgar: A New Chamber Musical |access-date=2007-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114014234/http://www.edgarallanpoemusical.com/about.html |archive-date=2007-11-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The 2008 Japanese/Australian [[Rock Musical|rock musical]] ''[[Once Upon a Midnight]]'' takes its title from the beginning of ''[[The Raven]]''.
*''[[Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe]]'', a musical written, composed, and directed by [[Jonathan Christenson]]. It was originally produced in 2009 at the [[Catalyst Theatre]] in [[Edmonton, Alberta]] and went on to be performed at theatre festivals and theatres across Canada, and to the Barbican Theater in London, and the New Victory Theatre in NYC. In January 2015, the show returned to New York in an [[Off-Broadway]] production at New World Stages.
*''Fall of the House'', a play by Robert Ford, premiered April 9, 2010 at the [[Alabama Shakespeare Festival]].  The play features vignettes from the last week of Poe's life and from the last days of his mother's life, both of which intersect with a modern-day plotline.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138425-Robert-Fords-Fall-of-the-House-Premieres-at-Alabama-Shakespeare-Fest-April-9 |title=Robert Ford's Fall of the House Premieres at Alabama Shakespeare Fest April 9 - Playbill.com |website=www.playbill.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410165707/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138425-Robert-Fords-Fall-of-the-House-Premieres-at-Alabama-Shakespeare-Fest-April-9 |archive-date=2010-04-10}}</ref>
*The 2016 musical, ''The House of Edgar'' by Thomas F. Arnold, produced by The Argosy Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, is based on the life and works of Poe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The House of Edgar &#124; Argosy Arts Co |url=http://argosyarts.co.uk/theatre/the-house-of-edgar/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823053434/http://argosyarts.co.uk/theatre/the-house-of-edgar/ |archive-date=2017-08-23 |access-date=2017-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The House of Edgar: 4 star review by Andrew Forbes |url=http://broadwaybaby.com/shows/the-house-of-edgar/713838}}</ref>
* American actor David Crawford devised and performed a one-man play entitled ''Poe's Last Night'' at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and Brighton Fringe 2017 at The Rialto Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://brighton.fringeguru.com/reviews/brighton-2017/poes-last-night|title = Poe's Last Night &#124; Fringe Guru}}</ref>
* Another Poe impersonator is Baltimore-native [[David Keltz]], who is notable for often starring in the annual Poe birthday celebration at [[Westminster Hall and Burying Ground]] every January.

== Audio theater/Radio theater ==
The 2011 audio play ''The Poe Toaster Not Cometh'', by Washington Audio Theater, explains the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe by depicting Poe as a [[vampire]] who comes to life in modern times and engages in a killing spree in Baltimore.  The play seeks to explain the [[Poe Toaster]] mystery by suggesting the Poe Toaster is in fact a contemporary of Poe's, surviving through the centuries via occult means.<ref>Washington Audio Theater, ''The Poe Toaster Not Cometh'', 2011, http://washingtonaudiotheater.com/the_poe_toaster_not_cometh_audio_download {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316110646/http://www.washingtonaudiotheater.com/the_poe_toaster_not_cometh_audio_download |date=2012-03-16 }}</ref>

==Television==
* In 1973, Poe (played by [[Larry Vincent|Larry "Seymour" Vincent]]) was the villain opposite [[Don Adams]] in a commercial for [[Aurora Plastics Corporation|Aurora]]'s Pendulum Pool.
* ''[[Dickens of London]]'' ([[1976 in television|1976]]), a television miniseries featured [[Seymour Matthews]] as Poe.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q5273622|title=Dickens of London}}</ref>
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)|Sabrina, the Teenage Witch]]'' ([[1999 in television|1999]]), where Poe is played by actor "[[Edgar Allan Poe IV]]" in the episode "[[List of Sabrina the Teenage Witch episodes#Season 4 (1999–2000)|Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace]]." Edgar Allan Poe IV claims he is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Edgar Allan Poe.<ref>''[https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/48153519.html?dids=48153519:48153519&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=JAN+21%2C+2000&author=Larry+Fox&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WEEKEND'S+BEST&pqatl=google Washington Post] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001062207/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/48153519.html?dids=48153519%3A48153519&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&date=JAN+21%2C+2000&author=Larry+Fox&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WEEKEND%27S+BEST&pqatl=google |date=2007-10-01 }}''. January 21, 2000</ref>
* An episode of the Cartoon Network series ''[[Time Squad]]'', about time travelers tasked with setting right errors in history, featured an uncharacteristically happy E.A.Poe, more concerned with happy rainbows and pink bunnies, than matters of the Macabre. History was returned to normal by introducing this erroneous Poe to a morose state of misery and depression, finally appreciating the horrors and misery of the world around him.
* An episode of ''Mr. Peabody & Sherman'' features the titular time-travelers visiting Poe. Sherman was shocked to find Poe writing ''Winnie the Pooh'', and insisted that Poe should write horror stories. "I tried," Poe answered. "But all my stories have happy endings!" Sherman suggests taking Poe to a haunted house for inspiration.
* In the episode "[[Escape to the House of Mummies Part II]]" ([[2006 in television|2006]]) of ''[[The Venture Bros.]]'', [[Brock Samson]], [[Hank Venture|Hank]], and [[Dean Venture|Dean]], team up with Edgar Allan Poe, as well as [[Caligula]], Brock Samson (past), and [[Sigmund Freud]].
* The [[2007 in television|2007]] ''[[Masters of Horror]]'' episode "[[The Black Cat (Masters of Horror episode)|The Black Cat]]" wove elements of Poe's life in with [[The Black Cat (short story)|the story of the same name]]. Poe was played by [[Jeffrey Combs]],<ref>[http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmtv/features/mastersofhorror/combs.asp Jeffrey Combs, Star of "The Black Cat"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622075642/http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/mastersofhorror/combs.asp |date=2008-06-22 }}, [[UGO Networks|UGO]]</ref> a horror movie veteran who has worked closely on a number of [[Stuart Gordon]]'s (the director) previous projects.
* The 2013 ''[[South Park]]'' episode "[[Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers]]" used Poe as a central character to bring the plot forward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/24/south-park-goth-kids-3-dawn-of-the-posers-review|title = South Park: "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers" Review - IGN| date=24 October 2013 }}</ref>
* In the second season of ''[[Witches of East End (TV series)|Witches of East End]]'', portrayed by [[Daniel DiTomasso]], Poe is seen in the episode "Poe Way Out" (2014) in a relationship with a former self of one of the main characters, Freya.
* In 2017 Poe was the subject of the [[PBS]] [[American Masters]] film ''Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive {{!}} About the Film {{!}} American Masters|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/edgar-allan-poe-buried-alive-documentary/8923/|website=American Masters|access-date=30 September 2017|date=21 July 2017}}</ref>
* The 2018 [[Netflix]] [[cyberpunk]] series ''[[Altered Carbon (TV series)|Altered Carbon]]'' features an AI character whose image is based on Poe, and called Edgar Poe, who runs a hotel called The Raven.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-business-of-being-edgar-allan-poe-11634909326|title=The Business of Being Edgar Allan Poe|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=22 October 2021|last1=Baab-Muguira|first1=Catherine}}</ref>
* The 2023 [[Netflix]] miniseries [[The Fall of the House of Usher (miniseries)|''The Fall of the House of Usher'']] directed by [[Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)|Mike Flanagan]] is loosely adapted from several of Poe's works, as well as featuring homages to the writer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Travers |first=Ben |date=2023-10-12 |title='The Fall of the House of Usher' Is Mike Flanagan's Spectral, Vicious Screed Against Actual Ghouls |url=https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/fall-of-house-of-usher-review-netflix-series-1234913063/ |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Music==
The influence of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] on the art of music has been considerable and long-standing, with the works, life and image of the [[horror fiction]] writer and poet inspiring composers and musicians from diverse genres for more than a century.

Leon Botstein, conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra—which presented a program of "Tales From Edgar Allan Poe" in 1999—noted that in the realm of [[European classical music|classical music]], as in literature, Poe's influence was felt more deeply in Europe than in America.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://Europhony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/1999_10_15/schmitt.cfm |title= Schmitt |work= AmericanSymphony.org|publisher= Europhony.org}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

* In 1907, American composer [[Grace Chadbourne]] set Poe's text to music with her "Hymn for Solo Voice: At Morn, at Noon, at Twilight Dim."<ref>{{Cite web|title=At morn -- at noon -- at twilight dim (Poe, set by (John Carrington, Grace Chadbourne, Walter Ruel Cowles, Paul Eisler, Harvey Bartlett Gaul, Joseph Charles Holbrooke, Bertram Shapleigh)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)|url=https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=31690|access-date=2021-06-30|website=www.lieder.net}}</ref>
* [[The Beatles]]' album ''[[List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' (1967) includes Poe as one of the people in the crowd on the front cover.  Poe is also referenced in their song "[[I Am the Walrus]]".
* The Finnish composer [[Einojuhani Rautavaara]] based his 1997 choral fantasy "On the Last Frontier" on the final two paragraphs of Poe's novel ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/20/arts/music-review-at-the-ball-a-deadly-thief-in-the-night.html|title= At the Ball, a Deadly Thief in the Night (MUSIC REVIEW) |first= James R. |last= Oestreich|date= October 20, 1999|newspaper = New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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* The British and American composer [[Tarik O'Regan]] uses portions of Poe's poem ''[[Israfel]]'' as the basis of his 2006 composition ''The Ecstasies Above'' for voices and string quartet.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/35453/ |title=''The Ecstasies Above'' listing on Music Sales Classical (publisher) |publisher=Music Sales Classical |access-date=3 October 2016 |archive-date=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005210438/http://www.musicsalesclassical.com/composer/work/35453/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* In 2017, French pop/celtic singer [[Nolwenn Leroy]] has set Poe's poems "A Dream" and "The Lake" to music, released on her album ''Gemme''.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Nolwenn-Leroy/news-104949.html "Gemme : Nolwenn Leroy rayonne sur un album mystique et puissant"]. ''Charts in France''. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.</ref>
* In May 2023 singers [[Teya (singer)|Teya]] and [[Salena (singer)|Salena]] represented [[Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest|Austria]] in the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2023]] in [[Liverpool]], United Kingdom, with the song "[[Who the Hell Is Edgar?]]". The song title being a reference Poe<ref>{{Cite web |title=Österreich fragt beim Song Contest: Who the hell is Edgar? |url=https://oe3.orf.at/stories/3031564/ |access-date=2023-03-06 |website=oe3.ORF.at |date=8 November 2019 |language=de}}</ref> and the song a satire of the music industry and the difficulties of being a lyricist, who are usually paid very little.
* In 2024, [[The Vaccines]] released a song titled “The Dreamer” which references Poe: “We were weaving in and out of Edgar Allen Poe".
* "A Dream of Poe" is a gothic doom metal band that is heavily inspired by Poe's work.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Dream of Poe - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives |url=https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/A_Dream_of_Poe/79756 |access-date=2023-10-30 |website=www.metal-archives.com}}</ref>

==Video games==
*Edgar Allan Poe and his works are mentioned in the 2009 [[Nancy Drew]] computer game ''[[Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy | Warnings at Waverly Academy]]''. The plot of the game is loosely based on the Nancy Drew book [[Nancy Drew Mystery Stories | ''Curse of the Black Cat'']].
*[[The Dark Eye (video game) | ''The Dark Eye'']] follows the Poe stories "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "Berenice" from the point of view of an unnamed narrator.
*''[[Fallout 4]]'' features [[Fort Independence (Massachusetts)|Fort Independence]] after a nuclear war. In the basement, a skeleton can be found entombed in a wall as a reference to "The Cask of Amontillado." Nearby is a case of Amontillado wine, with the label reading Montressor and being bottled by P. Edgar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/fallout-4-edgar-allen-poe-wine-cellar-2015-11|title=This is one of the most clever references in 'Fallout 4' we've seen so far|last=Gilbert|first=Ben|date=November 26, 2015|access-date=August 24, 2024|publisher=Business Insider}}</ref>

==Online==
*In the web series [[Epic Rap Battles of History]] Poe appears in rap conflict with [[Stephen King]].
*The production company [[Shipwrecked Comedy]] has featured Edgar Allan Poe in several of their web series. He is portrayed by [[Sean Persaud]]. He first appeared in the 2013 series ''A Tell Tale Vlog'' in which he is being haunted by Lenore the Ghost. The same character reappears in episode 4 of their series ''Kissing in the Rain'', released in 2014. In 2016, they Shipwrecked Comedy released ''Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party'', which features Poe inviting several famous authors to his home for a dinner party. A Christmas short titled ''Edgar Allan Poe's A Cryptmas Carol'' was released in 2018.{{cn|date=October 2023}}

==See also==
Poe's work has had extensive influence on culture:

*[[Edgar Allan Poe in television and film]]
*[[The Raven in popular culture]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/may/23/top10s.poe Matthew Pearl's Top 10 Books Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe] ''The Guardian'', May 23, 2006

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