Allan poe Quote by William Friedkin

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

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

— Matt Czuchry

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

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore…

— John Cusack

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

I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was one of…

— Ezra Miller

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

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

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for…

— Bentley Little

“Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a…

— Alistair Cross

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs…

— Sergio Aragones

“Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is…

— Alistair Cross