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Rufus Griswold wrote a libelous obituary of the author in a misguided attempt at revenge for some of the offensive things Poe had said and written about him. Griswold is only remembered (if at all) as Poe’s first biographer.

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As I've studied Edgar Allan Poe in-depthly over the past six months, I began to compile a list of obscure facts that I didn't know about Dear Poe. I'm ready to share with you some of the tidbits that I didn't quite fully know before.

1. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold Poe

2. Elizabeth, Poe's mother, died when Edgar was just three years old.

3. Edgars's father, David, was an alcoholic and abandoned Edgar and his two siblings after Elizabeth's death. He supposedly died 2 days later.

4. John and Frances Allan took Edgar in but never officially adopted him. They were well-to-do and were able to afford Edgar's education

5. Edgar gambled away whatever money the Allan's would send him while he was at the University of Virginia. He was eventually kicked out. They became estranged shortly after.

6. Edgar, who was not on great terms with his biological or guardian families, enlists in the Army as Edgar. A. Perry

7. When he began to write, he wrote under the name Edgar Allan Poe, assuming both surnames.

8. Obsessed with cats, Edgar often wrote with a cat on his shoulder.

9. Edgar's one and only novel Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was about a boat capsizing and the crew members drawing straws for who would be eaten; they drew straws and ate Richard Parker. The book bombed. Even though Poe said it was a true story, in his time most of the critics didn't believe him. They were right to think so because at the time Poe's book wasn't true, but just 5 years later a similar wreck happened with the same lead character name Richard Parker, but no cannibalism. Then in 1884 there was another shipwreck where there was cannibalism, and the one who was eaten was indeed Richard Parker.

10. He introduced the first recorded literary detective in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The detective character would lead to become the prototypical detective we know today. On a side note, a lot of people cite the word detective wasn't in existence in 1841 for Poe to use in describing his lead character, but it's been proven to have been printed in 1840, a year before Poe's novel. It's very well possible that the word was used commonly in speech at the time.

11. Poe is credited for defining the modern short story.

12. He was early adopter of the genre of Science Fiction. In 1844, he published "The Balloon" in Sun Newspaper. He described a lighter than air balloon that transversed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The accounts were so believable that the newspaper had to retract the story two days later. However untrue the story was, the Sun newspaper made a ton of money off of newspapers, and they did not give Poe a cent. From then on, Poe hated the Sun newspaper.

13. "The Raven" was a personal challenge Edgar imposed upon himself. He wanted to write 100 line poem, enough for one sitting. He ended up with 108 lines, which apparently was good enough for Poe.

14. Poe originally wanted to use a parrot instead of a raven, but he thought it didn't evoke the right tone.

15. Edgar changed the writing and publishing world. Before Poe, writing was a noble profession where not many were able to make a living off of solely writing. Edgar insisted that writing would be his career, and he made major strides to find an audience for his entertaining articles, which would become the initial spark of the magazine industry. He even was given $1,500 the last week of his life to start a magazine. However, in his life he was plagued by international copycats where he had no protection that we have now with international copyrights. In many ways, he paved the way for writers to be compensated enough to have a career.

Bonus Fact! In 1848 after his wife's death in 1847, Poe attempted to commit suicide by ingesting opiates. Four days later, he sat to take this daguerreotype.

If you'd like more on Poe, check out my favorite Poe biography by Kenneth Silverman.

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15 Interesting Facts about Edgar Allan Poe

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As I've studied Edgar Allan Poe in-depthly over the past six months, I began to compile a list of obscure facts that I didn't know about Dear Poe. I'm ready to share with you some of the tidbits that I didn't quite fully know before. 1. His mother was Elizabeth Arnold Poe 2.

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You've read Edgar Allan Poe's terrifying stories. You can quote "The Raven." How well do you know the writer's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities, though? Let's take a look at five things you might not know about the acclaimed author, who was born 208 years ago today.

1. HE WAS THE ORIGINAL BALLOON BOY.

You probably remember 2009's infamous "Balloon Boy" hoax. Turns out the Heene family that perpetrated that fraud weren't even being entirely original in their attention grabbing. They were actually cribbing from Poe.

In 1844 Poe cooked up a similar aviation hoax in the pages of the New York Sun. The horror master cranked out a phony news item describing how a Mr. Monck Mason had flown a balloon flying machine called Victoria from England to Sullivan's Island, SC in just 75 hours. According to Poe's story, the balloon had also hauled seven passengers across the ocean.

No balloonist had ever crossed the Atlantic before, so this story quickly became a huge deal. Complete transatlantic travel in just three days? How exciting! Readers actually queued up outside the Sun 's headquarters to get their mitts on a copy of the day's historic paper.

Poe's report on the balloon was chock full of technical details. He devoted a whole paragraph to explaining how the balloon was filled with coal gas rather than "the more expensive and inconvenient hydrogen." He listed the balloon's equipment, which included "cordage, barometers, telescopes, barrels containing provision for a fortnight, water-casks, cloaks, carpet-bags, and various other indispensable matters, including a coffee-warmer, contrived for warming coffee by means of slack-lime, so as to dispense altogether with fire, if it should be judged prudent to do so." He also included hundreds of words of excerpts from the passengers' journals.

The only catch to Poe's story was that it was entirely fictitious. The Sun 's editors quickly wised up to Poe's hoax, and two days later they posted an understated retraction that noted, "We are inclined to believe that the intelligence is erroneous."

2. HE DABBLED IN CRYPTOGRAPHY.

If you've read Poe's story "The Gold-Bug," you probably know that he had a working knowledge of cryptography. You might not know that Poe was actually a pretty darn good cryptographer in his own right.

Poe's first notable code cracking began in 1839. He sent out a call for readers of his Philadelphia newspaper to send him encoded messages that he could decipher. Poe would then puzzle over the secret messages for hours. He published the results of his work in a wildly popular recurring feature. Poe also liked to toss his own codes out there to keep readers busy. Some of the codes were so difficult that Poe professed utter amazement when even a single reader would crack them.

Poe was so confident in his abilities as a cryptographer that he approached the Tyler administration in 1841 with an offer to work as a government code cracker. He modestly promised, "Nothing intelligible can be written which, with time, I cannot decipher." Apparently there weren't any openings for him, though.

3. THE "ALLAN" CAME LATER.

It would sound odd to just say "Edgar Poe," but the famous "Allan" wasn't originally part of the writer's name. Poe was born in Boston in 1809 to professional actors, but his early childhood was fairly rotten. His mother died when he was a toddler, and his class-act father responded to her death by abandoning Poe and his two siblings.

Poe actually had a little luck at that point. John and Frances Allan, a well-to-do Richmond family, took the boy in and provided for his education. Although the Allans never formally adopted Poe, he added their surname to his own name.

Like a lot of Poe's fiction, his story with the Allans doesn't have a particularly happy ending. Poe and John Allan grew increasingly distant during the boy's teenage years, and after Poe left for the University of Virginia, he and Allan became estranged. (Apparently the root of these problems involved Poe's tendency to gamble away whatever money Allan sent him to subsidize his studies.)

4. HE HAD A NEMESIS.

Like a lot of writers, Poe had a rival. His was the poet, critic, and editor Rufus Griswold. Although Griswold had included Poe's work in his 1842 anthology The Poets and Poetry of America, Poe held an extremely low opinion of Griswold's intellect and literary integrity. Poe published an essay blasting Griswold's selections for the anthology, and their rivalry began.

Things really heated up, though, when Griswold succeeded Poe as the editor of Graham's Magazine at a higher salary than Poe had been pulling in. Poe began publicly lambasting Griswold's motivations; he even went so far as to claim that Griswold was something of a literary homer who puffed up New England poets.

Poe might have had a point about Griswold's critical eye, but Griswold had the good fortune to outlive Poe. After Poe died, Griswold penned a mean-spirited obituary in which he claimed the writer's death "will startle many, but few will be grieved by it" and generally portrayed Poe as an unhinged maniac.

Slamming a guy in his obituary is pretty low, but Griswold was just getting warmed up. He convinced Poe's aunt, Maria Clemm, to make him Poe's literary executor. Griswold then published a biography of Poe that made him out to be a drug-addled drunk, all while keeping the profits from a posthumous edition of Poe's work.

5. HIS DEATH WAS A MYSTERY WORTHY OF HIS WRITING.

In 1849 Poe left New York for a visit to Richmond, but he never made it that far south. Instead, Poe turned up in front of a Baltimore bar deliriously raving and wearing clothes that didn't fit. Passersby rushed Poe to the hospital, but he died a few days later without being able to explain what happened to him.

Poe's rumored causes of death were "cerebral inflammation" and "congestion of the brain," which were polite euphemisms for alcohol poisoning. Modern scholars don't totally buy this explanation, though. The characterization of Poe as a raging drunk mostly comes from Griswold's posthumous smear campaign, and his incoherent state of mind may have been the result of rabies or syphilis.

Some Poe fans subscribe to a more sinister theory about the writer's death, though. They think he may have fallen victim to "cooping," a sordid 19th century political practice. Gangs of political thugs would round up homeless or weak men and hold them captive in a safe place called a "coop" right before a major election. On election day - and there was an election in Baltimore on October 3, 1849, the day Poe was found - the gangs would then drug or beat the hostages before taking them around to vote at multiple polling places.

This story sounds like something straight out of Poe's own writing, but it might actually be true. Poe's crummy physical state and delirium would be consistent with a victim of cooping, and the ill-fitting clothes jibe with gangs' practice of making their hostages change clothes so they could cast multiple votes. With no real evidence either way, though, Poe's death remains one of literature's most fascinating mysteries.
This post originally appeared in 2011.

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5 Things You Didn't Know About Edgar Allan Poe

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You've read Edgar Allan Poe's terrifying stories. You can quote "The Raven." How well do you know the writer's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities, though? Let's take a look at five things you might not know about the acclaimed author, who was born 208 years ago today. 1.

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13. Originally Poe started his writing career doing what?Poe starts is writing career by joining the messenger editorial staff. 

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13. Originally Poe started his writing career doing what?Poe starts is writing career by joining the messenger editorial staff. 

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18. When were "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" written? | “ The Black Cat “ was published in  August 19, 1843. “ The Tell-Tale Heart” was written in 1843.

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Written in 1841, his "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" short story has been considered the first modern detective story.

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Written in 1841, his "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" short story has been considered the first modern detective story.

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Mr. Dupin, the fictional detective of the story, has served as a model for many subsequent fictional detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

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Poe is believed to have never signed anything "Edgar Allan Poe." 

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Poe is believed to have never signed anything "Edgar Allan Poe." 

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Since the name “Allan“ came from the foster father he didn't get along with, he therefore signed documents with “Edgar A. Poe“, or “E. A. Poe“.

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Although Poe died relatively young (at the age of 40), he moved many times during his lifetime, living alternately in Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston as well as Scotland and England.

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Although Poe died relatively young (at the age of 40), he moved many times during his lifetime, living alternately in Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston as well as Scotland and England.

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His last years, however, were spent in a cottage in Bronx, New York.

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The American football team the Baltimore Ravens are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’.

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The American football team the Baltimore Ravens are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic poem ‘The Raven’.

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4. Four days before his death Poe was found at a polling place on a voting day.

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4. Four days before his death Poe was found at a polling place on a voting day.

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Poe was found at Ryan’s Fourth Ward Polls on the day of a municipal election. This location was associated with cooping, a form of voter fraud in which unsuspecting victims were drugged and forced to vote at one polling place after another until being left for dead.

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The breadth of Edgar Allan Poe's influence on our culture is incalculable. He invented the detective story, contributed to the development of both science fiction and the horror genre, and wrote about the only American poem anybody knows-certainly the only one popular enough to have an NFL team named after it. His aesthetic and themes have influenced such cultural figures as Salvador Dali, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred Hitchcock, who credited Poe's works with inspiring him to make suspense films. A century and a half after his death, Poe still makes appearances on television shows like The Following and South Park as well as the upcoming movies The Tell-Tale Heart starring Rose McGowan and Stonehearst Asylum with Kate Beckinsale and Michael Caine. In addition to numerous Poe societies (including ones in Denmark and the Czech Republic), there are museums devoted to him in Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and the Bronx. Opened in 1922, the Poe Museum in Richmond boasts the world's largest collection of Poe's personal items and memorabilia.

Poe was born in Boston in 1809 but grew up in Richmond, Virginia and attended the University of Virginia. His early years were plagued by the death of his mother when he was two, his first love when he was 15, and his foster mother when he was 20. After dropping out of college and getting expelled from West Point, Poe took a job as an editor at the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. His controversial fiction and scathing book reviews boosted the magazine's circulation seven times in seventeen months, and he only got fired twice in the process. After his second termination, Poe took a series of editorial positions at the leading magazines in Philadelphia and New York and supplemented his income with lectures and public readings. His short story "The Gold Bug" was a smash hit, but the publication of "The Raven" made him internationally famous (while only earning him about $15).
READ 13 TRUE STORIES BEHIND EDGAR ALLAN POE'S TERROR TALES
After the death of his wife from tuberculosis at the age of 24 (coincidently the same age at which his mother and brother also died), Poe devoted his remaining years to developing and publishing an early version of the "Big Bang" theory entitled Eureka. During a lecture tour of the East Coast, Poe engaged himself to a former childhood sweetheart (by then a wealthy widow) Elmira Royster Shelton back in Richmond, but he died while passing through Baltimore on October 7, 1849-just ten days before the wedding. The cause of his death remains a mystery, but here are 13 haunting facts we do know about it.

1. When he died, Poe was on his way to Philadelphia for an editing job.

One of the last letters Poe wrote is a note to the poet Mrs. St. Leon Loud in which Poe arranges to meet her in Philadelphia to edit a book of her poetry. The letter is now in the collection of the Poe Museum.

2. A week before his death, his doctor advised him not to travel.

The night before he left Richmond on his trip to Philadelphia, his fiancée Elmira Shelton commented that he appeared ill, so Poe visited a doctor friend named John Carter, who advised Poe to stay in Richmond a few more days before making the journey. When Poe left Carter's house, he took Carter's sword cane, accidentally leaving his own.

3. Poe could not remember the location of his luggage.

Poe's attending physician, John Moran, asked his patient where he had left his luggage, but Poe could not remember. A few weeks later his cousin found a trunk of his possessions in Baltimore, and another trunk was found in Richmond. While his manuscripts went to his literary executor and editor Rufus Griswold, Poe's sister and mother-in-law fought over his trunk.

4. Four days before his death Poe was found at a polling place on a voting day.

Poe was found at Ryan's Fourth Ward Polls on the day of a municipal election. This location was associated with cooping, a form of voter fraud in which unsuspecting victims were drugged and forced to vote at one polling place after another until being left for dead. A few years after Poe's death a rumor spread that Poe had been cooped. About a decade after Poe's death, his friend John Ruben Thompson wrote a lecture, the manuscript of which (you guessed it) is in the Poe Museum, reporting that being cooped had contributed to Poe's death.

5. Poe's cat could not live without him.

After hearing of Poe's death, his mother-in-law discovered that his beloved tortoiseshell cat Catterina had also just died.

6. His enemy wrote his obituary.

One of Poe's professional and personal rivals Rufus Wilmot Griswold wrote a lengthy obituary for his enemy that was so libelous Griswold signed it with a pseudonym. The article portrayed Poe as a mad, drunken, womanizing opium addict who based his darkest tales on personal experience. Griswold expanded this account into a brief memoir of the author, and Griswold's distorted picture of Poe influenced popular opinion of the author for over a century.

7. His attending physician dismissed reports that Poe had been drinking heavily before his death.

In response to reports that Poe died as a result of a drinking binge, Poe's attending physician John Moran wrote articles and even a book, Edgar Allan Poe: A Defense, both to refute these rumors and to provide his own "first-hand" account of Poe's final days. Regrettably, Moran's accounts vary so widely that they are not generally considered reliable.

8. His friend spread rumors that he had been drunk.

When Poe was found in distress at Ryan's Fourth Ward Polls, he called for his magazine editor acquaintance Joseph Snodgrass. After failing to convince one of Poe's relatives to care for the poet, Snodgrass sent him to Washington College Hospital. A staunch temperance advocate, Snodgrass wrote and lectured about Poe's death as a cautionary tale about the evils of alcohol.

9. Poe's hair was a collector's item.

While Poe was lying in state, several of his admirers waited in line for souvenirs of the poet. His attending physician John Moran wrote that Poe's body was "visited by some of the first individuals of the city, many of them anxious to have a lock of his hair." Poe's friend Joseph Snodgrass saved a clipping which is now owned by the Poe Museum.

10. Only seven people attended Poe's funeral.

Poe's cousins hastily buried him the day after he died. An observer recalled the ceremony as being both "cold-blooded" and "unchristianlike." One of the attendees, Henry Herring, was later quoted as saying about Poe, "I didn't have anything to do with him when he was alive, and I don't want to have anything to do with him after his death."

11. Poe's body was moved decades after his death.

Poe was buried in an unmarked grave in his grandfather's plot in Westminster Burying Grounds in Baltimore. Eleven years later, a cousin paid for a monument, but the stone was destroyed by a train that crashed into the stone carver's shop. It was 26 years after Poe's death that teachers and students raised the money for a proper monument which was placed in a place of honor next to the cemetery gate. While it was being moved to the new location, Poe's coffin broke, revealing what was left of Poe's remains. Pieces of the coffin are now collector's items. Supposedly, one of Poe's female admirers wore a cross fashioned from pieces of the wood.

12. Poe's wife was buried next to him nearly 40 years after her death.

Poe's wife died two years before he did, and she was buried in his landlord's family crypt in the Bronx. After he was reburied under his new monument, some of his admirers decided to move her next to him in Baltimore. The problem was that developers had already built over her cemetery and moved the bodies. Fortunately, one of Poe's eccentric biographers William Gill rescued her bones. Unfortunately, he took them home with him and kept them in a box under his bed for years before he sent them to Baltimore for reburial.

13. Poe's death did not stop him from writing.

In the 1860s, the medium Lizzie Doten published some poetry she claimed had been dictated to her by Poe's ghost. His fiancée Sarah Helen Whitman (after his first wife's death but before his engagement to Elmira Shelton) hired a medium to move in with her because she thought Poe's spirit was trying to communicate with her, too.

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13 Haunting Facts About Edgar Allan Poe's Death

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The breadth of Edgar Allan Poe's influence on our culture is incalculable. He invented the detective story, contributed to the development of both science fiction and the horror genre, and wrote about the only American poem anybody knows-certainly the only one popular enough to have an NFL team named after it.

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Edgar’s one and only novel Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was about a boat capsizing and the crew members drawing straws for who would be eaten; they drew straws and ate Richard Parker. The book bombed.

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Edgar’s one and only novel Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was about a boat capsizing and the crew members drawing straws for who would be eaten; they drew straws and ate Richard Parker. The book bombed.

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Even though Poe said it was a true story, in his time most of the critics didn’t believe him. They were right to think so because at the time Poe’s book wasn’t true, but just 5 years later a similar wreck happened with the same lead character name Richard Parker, but no cannibalism. Then in 1884 there was another shipwreck where there was cannibalism, and the one who was eaten was indeed Richard Parker.

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Edgar Allan Poe died only two years later.

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Edgar Allan Poe died only two years later.

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His last two years were spent traveling and giving lectures.

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Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia died at the age of 24.

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Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia died at the age of 24.

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His writing career came to a halt because he was so devastated by Virginia's death.

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Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm when she was only 13.

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Edgar Allan Poe married Virginia Clemm when she was only 13.

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He was 27 at the time.

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Edgar self-published many of his own short stories.

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Edgar self-published many of his own short stories.

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One story won a contest sponsored by the Saturday Visitor.

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After hearing of Poe’s death, his mother-in-law discovered that his beloved tortoiseshell cat Catterina had also just died.

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 Obsessed with cats, Edgar often wrote with a cat on his shoulder.

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 Obsessed with cats, Edgar often wrote with a cat on his shoulder.

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 Edgar, who was not on great terms with his biological or guardian families, enlists in the Army as Edgar. A. Perry

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 Edgar, who was not on great terms with his biological or guardian families, enlists in the Army as Edgar. A. Perry

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John and Frances Allan took Edgar in but never officially adopted him. They were well-to-do and were able to afford Edgar’s education

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John and Frances Allan took Edgar in but never officially adopted him. They were well-to-do and were able to afford Edgar’s education

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Edgar Allan Poe, the well-known author of macabre short stories and poetry, was born on January 19th,

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe 

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe

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poes coffin was just a box with no handles nothing under his head and no cloth around and in the coffin 

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poes coffin was just a box with no handles nothing under his head and no cloth around and in the coffin 

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poes original grave stone broke on the train and did not even have his name 

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poes original grave stone broke on the train and did not even have his name 

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Gothic Literature includes: (List at least five elements).Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)Curses or prophecies.Damsels in distress.Heroes.Romance.

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Gothic Literature includes: (List at least five elements).Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)Curses or prophecies.Damsels in distress.Heroes.Romance.

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poe was buried 2 times in 1849 and again in 1879.

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poe was buried 2 times in 1849 and again in 1879.

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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published inGraham's Magazine in 1841.

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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published inGraham's Magazine in 1841.

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http://www.poemuseum.org/ http://www.eapoe.org/index.htm http://www.poestories.com/  http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/default_flash.asp
http://www.biography.com/news/edgar-allan-poe-death-facts
http://www.softschools.com/facts/authors/edgar_allan_poe_facts/1374/
http://www.killadj.com/blog/2013/11/25/15-interesting-facts-edgar-allan-poe/
http://list25.com/25-little-known-facts-about-edgar-allan-poe-the-master-of-horror/

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A mysterious man who comes out every year on January 10 and walks up to Poe’s grave and places a half bottle of cognac and three roses.

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Which poems made Poe famous?  When were those poems written?

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Which poems made Poe famous?  When were those poems written?

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The poems that made Poe famous were The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold Bug, and The Black Cat. All were published in 1843.

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Originally Poe started his writing career doing what?

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Originally Poe started his writing career doing what?

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Poe started his writing career by publishing books of poems.

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There are 13 theories on what caused Poe's death. List five of them

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There are 13 theories on what caused Poe's death. List five of them

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1 | Beating
2 | Diabetes
3 | Rabies
4 | Murder
5 | Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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List five examples of "Poe in Your Life."

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List five examples of "Poe in Your Life."

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The band Iron Maiden made a song with the same name as one of Poe’s stories. 81 films have been made based on the works of Poe. The Simpsons acted out the poem “The Raven”. The 2001 novel “In A Strange City” is about unmasking the Poe Toaster. Poe was the number 4 most searched person on the search engine Lycos in 1999.

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When were "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" written?

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When were "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" written?

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Both of those were written in 1842.

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5.  Who did Poe marry?  What happened to his wife?Poe married Virginia Clemm a 13 year old girl who die at the age of 24.

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5.  Who did Poe marry?  What happened to his wife?Poe married Virginia Clemm a 13 year old girl who die at the age of 24.

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What tragic childhood events influenced his writing? 

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What tragic childhood events influenced his writing? 

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The tragic childhood events that influenced Poe’s writing were poverty and family troubles.

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He was found unconscious at a pub on October 3rd and died in the hospital October 7th

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13. Originally Poe started his writing career doing what? Poe starts is writing career by joining the messenger editorial staff.

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13. Originally Poe started his writing career doing what? Poe starts is writing career by joining the messenger editorial staff.

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Poe is buried in Baltimore, Maryland.