Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwreck…

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

— Ray Bradbury

“And hither and thither fly--Mere puppets they, who come and go, At bidding of vast formless things, that shift the scenery to and fro.'"…

— Lili Wilkinson

“The sky was the color of Edgar Allen Poe's pajamas.”

— Tom Robbins

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

— Matt Skiba

“I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want…

— Lemony Snicket

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

— Arthur Twining Hadley

“Richard Parker found himself on a dinghy with three other men, floating over a thousand kilometres from the nearest land.”

— Eleanor Learmonth

“Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.”

— Yann Martel

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

— Yann Martel

I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And in the…

— Dario Argento

“I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your…

— Ralph Ellison

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor…

— Tim Dorsey

“Everyone knows the only reason Palmetto qualified for this division is because of your coach." "Funny, I'm pretty sure that's how Edgar Allen qualified.”

— Nora Sakavic

“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but…

— Mark Twain

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I…

— Edgar Allan Poe