Life and Times
The U.S City Where Edgar Allen Poe was born and raised.
What is Baltimore?
In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator is haunted by this body part.
What is an eye?
This bird torments the narrator in Poe's most famous poem.
What is a Raven?
Poe was found delirious on the streets of this city in 1894.
What is Baltimore?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"
What is The Raven?
Poe married this family member when she was only 13 years old.
Who is Virginia Clemm?
This short story features a man being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition.
What is The Pit and the Pendulum?
Annabel Lee describes the death of this person.
Who is Annabel Lee?
Poe was wearing these when he was found, which were not his own,
What is strange clothes?
"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge."
What is The Cast of Amontillado?
Before becoming a famous writer, Poe attended this military academy.
What is West Point?
The Masque of the Red Death features this plague-like force that kills guests at a masquerade.
What is the Red Death?
Poe's poem The Bells features this sound, symbolic of death.
What is the tolling of Iron bells?
One theory suggests that Poe was a victim of this election-related crime, where people were kidnapped and forced to vote multiple times.
What is cooping?
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year..."
What is The Fall of the House of Usher?
Poe worked as an editor for several magazines, including this famous one.
What is Graham's Magazine?
Montresor seeks revenge on Fortunato in this chilling tale.
What is The Cask of Amontillado?
The narrator of The Raven sits in this room when the bird arrives.
What is a Chamber?
What is 40?
"True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
What is The Tale Tell Heart?
This was Poe's only full-length novel, published in 1838.
What is The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket?
This story tells of a decaying mansion that seems connected to its owner, Roderick.
What is The Fall of the House of Usher?
To Helen was inspired by this real-life person
Who is Jane Standard?
Some believe Poe died from this illness, which was common at the time.
What is rabies?
"It was many and many a year ago, in a Kingdom by the sea."
What is Annabel Lee?