Edgar Allan Poe

(1809-1849) American writer of horror, mystery, and science fiction stories. Of Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. [Edgar Allan Poe, Wikipedia]

Poe's coffin was stolen by Christopher Canning and hidden under Canning's mansion. Later Poe was reanimated from his essential saltes by Launcelot Canning, and kept imprisoned where he spent his time writing tales "fraught with a terror not to be endured." These included The Crypt, The Further Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, and The Worm of Midnight. The reanimated Poe hated Launcelot Canning and later escaped and attacked him during the fire that destroyed Canning's mansion. [RB Poe (online text)]

Later References

On the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition, Danforth commented that the image of Mount Yaanek in Poe's poem Ulalume must have been inspired by the 1840 discovery of Mt. Terror on Ross Island, Antarctica. William Dyer was interested in Poe because of the Antarctic scene of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Danforth had queer notions about sources to which Poe may have had access when writing that story. This suspicion seemed confirmed when Danforth and Dyer heard a pursuing shoggoth uttering a phrase from Poe's story: "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" [HPL Mountains (online text)]

Henricus Vanning gave a party inspired by Poe's Masque of the Red Death. [RB Sebek]

Arthur Phillips and Rose Dexter encountered a group of Poe lookalikes in Providence. They had apparently been created by a cone-like alien creature (probably possessed by a member of the Great Race) who took Poe for a model of an average human being. [AWD Brotherhood]

John Conrad regarded Poe as the author of one of the three master horror-tales, The Fall of the House of Usher. [REH Children (online text)]

Edward Stowescroft delighted in visiting the Poe environs at Richmond [JVS Necro].

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