Edgar Allan Poe

The raven repeatedly says 'Nevermore.' This topic is part of Authors within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 10 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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Edgar Allan Poe wrote which poem featuring a mysterious bird?

Answer: The Raven

Bonus fact: The raven repeatedly says 'Nevermore.'

Which Poe story features a narrator disturbed by an old man's eye?

Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

Bonus fact: The narrator insists on sanity while describing murder.

Poe is often credited with helping invent what modern fiction genre?

Answer: Detective story

Bonus fact: C. Auguste Dupin appears in The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

Which writer is famous for short stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: Poe helped shape the modern short story.

Who wrote The Cask of Amontillado?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: The story was published in 1846.

Who wrote the short story The Black Cat?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: The story was published in 1843.

Who wrote The Murders in the Rue Morgue?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: The story appeared in 1841.

Who wrote the poem Annabel Lee?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: It was published shortly after Poe's death.

Who wrote The Pit and the Pendulum?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: The story was first published in 1842.

Who wrote the poem The Raven?

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Bonus fact: Poe's The Raven was first published in 1845 and became one of his best-known works.

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