Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Orphaned young and often destitute, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story with ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, perfected the tale of terror in ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, and became famous overnight with ‘The Raven’ in 1845. He died in Baltimore at forty in circumstances that remain unexplained.