Artist Quote by Raul Garcia

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

“An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philosopher... Poe was much the…

— Henry James

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

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

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in…

— Patti Smith

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

— Paul Valery

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

The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and - well,…

— Jim Jarmusch

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it…

— Mark Gatiss

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

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years…

— Dove Cameron