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Information on Poe and His Works
- The Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial: Celebrating 200 Years of Poe's Life & Work – This well-maintained blog by John Wright celebrates Poe’s Bicentennial. Make sure to click on “full set of links” to access excellent websites pertaining Poe’s life and works.
- Edgar Allan Poe Museum – Features Poe’s works, relics, photos and biographical information.
- Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site – Visit this website for the 2009 calendar of events relating to Poe in Philadelphia.
- The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore – Designed by the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, this website contains in depth biographical information and literary criticism and an impressive collection of many of Poe’s written works.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s House of Usher Fan Site – This popular Poe site is regularly updated with many resources and links relating to Poe. Poe biographies, bibliographies, complete works by Poe and fun to watch videos are all accessible from this one website.
- Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane – This is Cornell University’s online version of its 2007 exhibit entitled, “Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane”. It is a wonderfully designed website, featuring many items from Susan Jaffe Tane’s personal collection including Poe manuscripts, letters and rare first editions.
- Poe Bibliography – This is a comprehensive bibliography of Poe’s collected works, separate works, periodicals to which Poe contributed, contributions to magazines and newspapers (including his poems, tales and essays) and biography and criticism.
- Poe Decoder – This website features criticism and essays pertaining to the works of Poe by Poe enthusiasts.
- A Poe Webliography: Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet – A well researched webliography by Heyward Ehrlich, a department of English Professor from Rutgers University.
Poe
- Edgar Allan Poe: EBooks – Ibiblio provides access to 8 full-text works of Poe for immediate viewing or downloading.
- Edgar Allan Poe-poets.org – This website from the Academy of American Poets provides poems and biographical information on Poe.
- http://www.poestories.com – Access to Poe’s short stories, story summaries, quotes, discussions, images and links.
- Poe: Index of Published e-texts – 25 tales and sketches of Poe in full text are available from the Sunset Archive, Swedish University’s Computer Network.
- Project Gutenberg: Edgar Allan Poe – Project Gutenberg provides access to many of Poe's works in full text
Poe Videos and Animation
- Edgar Allan Poe – A well animated video of Edgar Allan Poe reciting “The Raven.”
- Edgar Allan Poe & Vincent Price: The Tell-Tale Heart (I) – Enjoy watching Vincent Price in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” (I)
- Edgar Allan Poe Biography – This Biography.com article contains 4 short and concise biographical video clips by Poe Scholars.
- Edgar Allan Poe on YouTube – Watch "Edgar Allan Poe" from "Snoopy the Musical."
- Edgar Allan Poe: 2 Tales and an Interview – Listen to the Tell-Tale Heart read by Marvin Bowman, Richard Sater reading The House of Usher or An Interview with Ken Silverman, a well recognized Poe Biographer.
- Edgar Allan Poe: completed works – Download and listen to many of Poe's courtesy Librivox
- Edgar Allan Poe: The fall of the House of Usher – An animated version of “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven (Narrated by Christopher Walken) – Listen to Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” as narrated by Christopher Walken.
- Humpty Dumpty by Edgar Allan Poe – A comical reading of “Humpty Dumpty” by Edgar Allan Poe.
- John Astin Reads The Raven By Edgar Allan Poe – John Astin reads “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.