Edgar Allan Poe has to be the most mysterious of authors that the world has ever seen. He has been the subject of more biographies, analyses, and studies than any other American author, yet now; more than 150 years after his death, much of the details of his tumultuous life are still unknown. Much of this mystery is because of the many myths and legends that surround Poe’s life, most of which were created by …showed first 75 words of 3056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3056 total…most mysterious of people that we have come to know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Machdonald, Dwight. Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965 Peeples, Scott. Edgar Allan Poe Revisited. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998 Van Doren Stern, Phillip. The Portable Poe. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1945 Davidson, Edward H. Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956 Bloom, Harold. Bloom’s Major Short Story Writers: Edgar Allan Poe. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1999