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The influence of American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe on the generations that came after him is far and wide. Among those influenced by Edgar Allan Poe are authors Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and even Stephen King.
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x Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky Miguel de Cervantes Ivan Turgenev Mikhail Bakunin
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, Fёdor Mihajlovič Dosto'evskij, pronounced [ˈfʲodər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ dəstɐˈjɛfskʲɪj]  ( listen), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij, Dostoevski,...
Victor Hugo Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles Dickens Marcel Proust
Edgar Allan Poe Albert Camus
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Franz Kafka
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x Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges Zhuangzi   Umberto Eco
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (pronounced /ˈhɔr.heɪ luˈiːs ˈbɔr.hɛz/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈlwis ˈborxes]; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), best known as Jorge Luis Borges, was an Argentine writer, essayist and poet born in...
Thomas Carlyle Orhan Pamuk
James Joyce Gene Wolfe
Franz Kafka Philip K. Dick
Hermann Hesse Stanisław Lem
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x Herman Melville Herman Melville 1860 Miguel de Cervantes Nathaniel Hawthorne Lewis Mumford
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet who is often classified as part of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and novella Billy Budd, the latter...
Edgar Allan Poe Toni Morrison
William Shakespeare Allen Ginsberg
John Milton Albert Camus
Nathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Mann
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x Marcel Proust Marcel Proust 1900 Fyodor Dostoevsky   Edmund Wilson
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl pʁust]) (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of...
Edgar Allan Poe Samuel Beckett
Thomas Carlyle Orhan Pamuk
Ralph Waldo Emerson John Updike
John Ruskin Richard Wright
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x Franz Kafka Franz Kafka Franz Grillparzer Felix Weltsch Milan Kundera
Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: [ˈfʀants ˈkafka]; 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a major fiction writer of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria...
Heinrich von Kleist Max Brod Jorge Luis Borges
Gustave Flaubert Haruki Murakami
Friedrich Nietzsche Jonathan Lethem
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Saul Bellow
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x Paul Valéry Paul Valéry, drawn by himself Edgar Allan Poe Gustave Le Bon T. S. Eliot
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (French IPA: [pɔl valeˈʁi]; October 30, 1871 – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his poetry...
Stéphane Mallarmé Stéphane Mallarmé Albert Einstein
Henri Bergson
Edmund Wilson
Anaïs Nin
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x William Faulkner William Faulkner Fyodor Dostoevsky   Jorge Luis Borges
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet...
Edgar Allan Poe Truman Capote
Mark Twain Hunter S. Thompson
Thomas Wolfe Harper Lee
William Shakespeare Toni Morrison
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x Walt Whitman Whitman-leavesofgrass Walter Scott Edward Carpenter D. H. Lawrence
Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most...
Abraham Lincoln Fernando Pessoa
Edgar Allan Poe Federico García Lorca
Ralph Waldo Emerson Arthur Rimbaud
Pablo Neruda
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x Stéphane Mallarmé Manet's Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé (1876) Charles Baudelaire Paul Verlaine Maurice Ravel
Stéphane Mallarmé (French pronunciation: [malaʁˈme]) (18 March 1842 – 9 September 1898), whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several...
Edgar Allan Poe Stefan George Claude Debussy
Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle Paul Valéry Rainer Maria Rilke
Dante Alighieri Rainer Maria Rilke William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats Paul Valéry
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x Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Edgar Allan Poe   Samuel Beckett
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late...
John Keats André Gide
Walter Pater James Joyce
Victor Hugo James Morrow
James McNeill Whistler Erico Verissimo
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x Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov Edgar Allan Poe Edmund Wilson Thomas Pynchon
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков, pronounced [vlɐdʲiˈmʲɪr nɐboˈkəf]; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899, Saint Petersburg – 2 July 1977, Montreux) was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov...
Aleksandr Pushkin John Updike
Anton Chekhov Zadie Smith
Franz Kafka Martin Amis
Gustave Flaubert Salman Rushdie
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x Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire Edgar Allan Poe   Stéphane Mallarmé
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (English pronunciation: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/,French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]) (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become...
Gustave Flaubert André Breton
Thomas de Quincey Jack Kerouac
Emanuel Swedenborg Franz Liszt
Joseph de Maistre Georg Heym
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x Thomas Mann Thomas Mann Johann Wolfgang Goethe Berthold Lubetkin Orhan Pamuk
Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for...
Friedrich Nietzsche Gore Vidal
Arthur Schopenhauer Saul Bellow
Johann Jakob Bachofen Joseph Campbell
Herman Melville Franz Kafka
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x Truman Capote Truman Capote Anton Chekhov   Andy Warhol
Truman Garcia Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984), born Truman Streckfus Persons, was an American writer, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics,...
Ivan Turgenev Harper Lee
Gustave Flaubert Joseph Wambaugh
E. M. Forster Haruki Murakami
James Agee John Updike
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x Stephen King Stephen King, Comicon Richard Matheson   Haruki Murakami
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. More than 350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and...
Edgar Allan Poe Sarah Pinborough
H. P. Lovecraft Christopher Pike
J. R. R. Tolkien Wolfgang Hohlbein
Ray Bradbury Brian Keene
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x Richard Brautigan 1974 paperback edition Ernest Hemingway   Haruki Murakami
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 14, 1984) was a 20th century American writer. His novels and stories often have to do with black comedy, parody, satire, and Zen Buddhism. He is probably best known for his 1967 novel, Trout...
Fyodor Dostoevsky Charles Plymell
Jack Kerouac William Michaelian
Edgar Allan Poe W. P. Kinsella
E. E. Cummings Garret Schuelke
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x Fernando Pessoa Fernando Pessoa John Milton   Almada Negreiros
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic...
William Shakespeare Alain Badiou
Walt Whitman Gao Xingjian
Edgar Allan Poe Francisco Santos
Camilo Pessanha José Saramago
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x Agatha Christie Agatha Christie in 1937 Arthur Conan Doyle   Christopher Pike
Dame Agatha Christie DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her...
Edgar Allan Poe Ruth Rendell
G. K. Chesterton P. D. James
Stieg Larsson
x Arthur Conan Doyle Conan doyle Edgar Allan Poe   Agatha Christie
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and...
Ibn-e-Safi Edgar Rice Burroughs
Jules Verne Gene Wolfe
Kodō Nomura
Drew J. Cormack
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x Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison Edgar Allan Poe   Octavia E. Butler
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an Jewish American writer. His principle genre is science fiction. His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not...
Roger Zelazny Neil Gaiman
Stephen Dedman
Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo
James A. Moore
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x Jules Verne Jules Verne. Photo by Félix Nadar Edgar Allan Poe   Arthur C. Clarke
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
Daniel Defoe Edgar Rice Burroughs
Victor Hugo H. G. Wells
Alexandre Dumas Stanley G. Weinbaum
James Rollins
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x Brian Gage Brian Gage Edgar Allan Poe    
Brian Gage (born 4 October 1973) is an American author of satire, fairy tales, and fiction. He was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. Brian was accepted to The College of Santa Fe's Moving Image Arts Department for screenwriting in 1994 and...
Stanley Kubrick
Brothers Grimm
Noam Chomsky
Hans Christian Andersen
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x Italo Calvino Calvino-italo Ernest Hemingway   Orhan Pamuk
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) (Italian pronunciation: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics...
Edgar Allan Poe Salman Rushdie
Franz Kafka Umberto Eco
Galileo Galilei Amanda Filipacchi
Jorge Luis Borges Craig Clevenger
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x Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley G. Weinbaum H. G. Wells   Isaac Asimov
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 - December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction author. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July...
Edgar Allan Poe Stephen King
Edgar Rice Burroughs Arthur C. Clarke
Jules Verne H. P. Lovecraft
Mary Shelley Robert A. Heinlein
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x Wolfgang Hohlbein Hohlbein Wolfgang Autor floersheim main 290607 Edgar Allan Poe    
Wolfgang Hohlbein (born August 15, 1953 in Weimar) is a German writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who was born in Weimar, Thuringia and today lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike, is also a writer and often...
H. P. Lovecraft
J. R. R. Tolkien
Stephen King
Michael Ende
x Brian Freeman   Dan Simmons    
Brian Freeman is an author whose fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies including Borderlands 5, Corpse Blossoms, and all four volumes of the Shivers series. His first novel, Black Fire, was written under the pseudonym James Kidman....
Edgar Allan Poe
Neil Gaiman
Richard Matheson
Ray Bradbury
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x Stephen Dedman   Arthur C. Clarke    
Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. His short stories have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Year's Best SF, and The Best Australian Writing: A Fifty Year Collection....
Edgar Allan Poe
Harlan Ellison
Raymond Chandler
Ray Bradbury
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x Enchi Fumiko Enchi Fumiko Edgar Allan Poe    
Fumiko Enchi (円地文子, Enchi Fumiko, 2 October 1905 – 12 November 1986) was the pen-name of one of the most prominent women writers in Showa period Japan. Her maiden name was Fumi Ueda. Fumiko Enchi was born in the Asakusa district of downtown Tokyo,...
Oscar Wilde
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Junichiro Tanizaki
x Michael McDowell   Edgar Allan Poe    
Michael McEachern McDowell (1 June 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama – 27 December 1999, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University...
H. P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
x Tom Bevis   Edgar Allan Poe    
Thomas Bevis cames from a small and uninvolved family. At an early age, he took to several forms of art, focusing on drawing,music, and writing. In his youth, he read horror pulp novels such as those by R. L. Stine, but his tastes evolved as he grew...
H. P. Lovecraft
Hunter S. Thompson
J. R. R. Tolkien
Richard Matheson
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x Fereydoun Motamed Fereydoun-Motamed-1992 Charles Dickens    
Amir Ferydoun Motamed (AKA Amir Fereydoun Motamed or Fereydoon H. Motamed), 1917-1993, was an internationally-known professor and linguist, winner of the Louis de Broglie award, from the French Academy, and recipient of literary award "Le Grand Prix...
Edgar Allan Poe
x Richard Dean Starr Rds-web Edgar Allan Poe    
Richard Dean Starr is an American copywriter, editor, and author of fiction and graphic novels whose work has featured characters including Hellboy, Zorro, The Phantom, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Avenger, and Wyatt Earp, among others. He is...
Edgar Rice Burroughs
J. R. R. Tolkien
Stephen King
John D. MacDonald
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x Forceythe Willson   Edgar Allan Poe   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Byron Forceythe Willson (April 10, 1837 – February 2, 1867) was a nineteenth century American poet. He was the brother of Kentucky governor Augustus E. Willson. Byron Forceythe Willson was born April 10, 1837 in Little Genesee, Allegany County, New...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
x Elizabeth Engstrom   Edgar Allan Poe    
Elizabeth Engstrom is best known as a speculative fiction writer. She was born Bette Lynn (Betsy) Gutzmer, but she legally changed her name to Elizabeth Engstom a few years after publishing her first novel under that pseudonym. She is married to Al...
John Steinbeck
Robert A. Heinlein
Ray Bradbury
Rod Serling
x Matthew Pearl Matthew Pearl Edgar Allan Poe    
Matthew Pearl is an American novelist and educator. His novels, The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens, have been New York Times Bestsellers, International Bestsellers, and have been published in more than 40 countries. Matthew Pearl...
Umberto Eco
x Hanns Heinz Ewers Hanns Heinz Ewers 1922 Edgar Allan Poe   H. P. Lovecraft
Hanns Heinz Ewers (November 3, 1871, Düsseldorf - June 12, 1943, Berlin) was a German actor, poet, philosopher, and writer of short stories and novels. While he wrote on a wide range of subjects, he is today known chiefly for his works of horror,...
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