Agents Quote by Dean Koontz

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

— Paul Valery

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale…

— Rose McGowan

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

— John Lennon

Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.

— Leslie Stephen

“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible after all,…

— Mike Wallace

“of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 classic “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” may have been history’s first behavioral profiler.”

— John E. Douglas

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of…

— Stephen King

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading,…

— Goldlink

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of…

— Andrew Barger

Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost…

— Nelson Algren

“E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a “single sitting” was longer back in his day.…

— Gabrielle Zevin

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

— John Green