1. Rufus Griswold wrote a biographical "Memoir" of Poe, which he included in an additional volume of the collected works. Griswold depicted Poe as a depraved, drunk, drug-addled madman.

Zu seinen stilprägenden Erzählungen gehören Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) und Die Abenteuer Gordon Pyms (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket).