Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, (1809-1849), lived a sad and deeply troubled life. After losing his mother at the age of three, he was orphaned by Frances, a close friend of his mother’s, and John Allan. After John Allan became involved in extramarital affairs while Frances lay dying of Tuberculosis, Edgar and John became estranged. John sent Edgar to the new and very rough University of Virginia with barely enough money to even get there. He …

…because I was so taken with the Poe stories that I later made suspense films. I don’t want to seem immodest, but I can’t help comparing what I’ve tried to put into my films with what Edgar Allan Poe put in his novels: a completely unbelievable story told to the readers with such a spell-binding logic that you get the impression that the same thing could happen to you tomorrow.” – Alfred Hitchcock