Inspiration
The Final Haunting of Edgar A. Poe combines elements from Poe's works with details from his real life. Here you can see all the inspirations that we've incorporated into our story in one way or another.
Embedded Files
We've adapted and abridged many of Poe's short stories – and a few poems – into Final Haunting. If you're interested in Poe's writings, then we encourage you to read some or all of his incredible works for yourself! Click on a title to redirect to PoeStories.com to read them in full!
Main Story Arcs
'The Bells' • 'The Cask of Amontillado' • 'Eleonora' • 'Ligeia' • 'William Wilson'
Minor References
'The Black Cat' • 'The Conqueror Worm' • 'A Dream Within a Dream' • 'The Imp of the Perverse' • 'The Island of the Fay' • 'Lenore' • 'The Masque of the Red Death' • 'The Raven' • 'The Spectacles' • 'The Tell-Tale Heart'
For any stories or poems that you've read, see if you can catch our references while watching our show! (But this is just for fun; you don't need to have read any of Poe's writings in order to get the most out of Final Haunting.)
Poe's Life and Death
Although Final Haunting is a work of fiction, it alludes to real elements of Poe's actual life.
Nearly everyone that Poe cared deeply about died tragically. His birth mother, his adoptive mother, his wife Virginia, and his brother Henry all died of Tuberculosis, called 'the Consumption' at the time.
Despite his trauma, Poe was more than just the sad boy we know his as today. Only about half of his writings are horror or gothic fiction; he also wrote romance, mystery, and even comedy!
Poe wrote multiple times about a character called 'Eleonora' or 'Lenore', whom some scholars believe represents his wife.
Poe had many enemies. Foremost among them was his abusive adoptive father, John Allan. He also had literary rivals, including Lewis Gaylord Clark, Thomas Dunn, and Rufus Wilmot Griswold, all of whom are collectively represented as 'Lewis Dunn' in Final Haunting, and none of whom ever reached the same level of fame as Poe.
In his last days, Poe was found in the streets drunk and delirious, wearing clothes that were not his own. He was brought to a hospital, but died a few days later. Both at the time and now, experts have shared various theories on his cause of death, but nothing conclusive has ever been decided upon.
The night before he died, Poe repeatedly called out to someone named 'Reynolds'. To this day, no trace of any person named Reynolds has been linked to Edgar Allan Poe.
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