EDGAR ALLAN POE COLLECTION

OLD TIME RADIO - 1 CD-ROM - 22 mp3 - Total Playtime: 7:31:34
 

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe published his poem, "The Raven", to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years after its publication. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today. The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

 

EPISODES LIST
 

Black Mass - A Predicament & the Tell- Tale Heart
Black Mass 640729 The Man in the Crowd & M S Found in a Bottle
CBS Radio Workshop - 570728 Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Escape 471022 011 The Fall of the House of Usher
Hall of Fantasy 53-01-19 The Cask of Amontillado
Hall of Fantasy 53-06-01 The Telltale Heart
Mercury Summer Theater 46-08-23 Two Stories
Mystery in the Air 47-09-18 12 The Black Cat
NBC Short Stories - A Cask of Amontillado
NBC Short Stories - The Tell-Tale Heart
NBC University Theater 480917 008 The Purloined Letter
Suspense 430112 024 The Pit and the Pendulum
Suspense 531214 530 The Mystery of Marie Roget
Vincent Reads Edgar Allan Poe - The Imp of the Perverse
Weird Circle 43-08-29 01 Fall of the House of Usher
Weird Circle 43-09-19 04 Narrative of a Gordon Pym
Weird Circle 43-10-31 10 William Wilson
Weird Circle 44-01-02 19 Murders in the Rue Morgue
Weird Circle 44-01-30 23 The Tell-Tale Heart
Weird Circle 44-04-09 33 The Cask of Amontillado
Weird Circle 45-02-18 64 The Oblong Box
Weird Circle 45-04-08 71 The Case of Monsieur Valdermar


 

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