Books like Edgar Allan Poe by Heinrich Buchholz

Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "A Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesswork, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend and describes how they both were distorted by early biographies.

A Norton Critical Edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s collected poems, tales, essays, and novel, featuring extensive scholarly introductions, annotations, critical essays, and historical documents that illuminate his career and themes.

A comprehensive collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s most celebrated short stories, poems, and essays, featuring his pioneering tales of terror, detective fiction, and visionary poetry.