Allan poe Quote by John E. Douglas

“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

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant…

— Dean Koontz

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and…

— Marshall McLuhan

“Traditionally, most murders and violent crimes were relatively easy for law enforcement officials to comprehend. They resulted from critically exaggerated manifestations of feelings we…

— John E. Douglas

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler

The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I…

— Sarah Pinborough

“It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this…

— John Cusack

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

— Giles Foden

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous…

— Karin Slaughter

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking…

— Colin Wilson

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit…

— Leigh Hunt