Index

Note: Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.

• abolition movement, 32, 78–79
• Adams, John Quincy, 49
• African Americans: in Poe’s stories, 32, 96; slave trade and, 30–32; stereotypes of, 103–4, 105, 116, 194n49
• Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, 44, 46, 56
• “Al Aaraaf,” 146
• Alburger, William, 111–13
• Alexander, Charles, 93
• Allan, Frances Keeling Valentine (Poe’s foster mother), 14–15, 17, 22; death of, 27, 43, 45, 60; grave of, 70
• Allan, John (Poe’s foster father), 13–23, 27–28, 43–45, 72; death of, 54; grave of, 70; Moldavia mansion of, 29, 29–30, 38, 43, 70; second marriage of, 45; as slaveholder, 30, 185n34
• Allen, Hervey, 185n34
• “Angel of the Odd, The,” 135
• “Annabel Lee,” 5, 41, 167
• Anthon, Charles, 134–35
• “Assignation, The,” 60
• Auden, W. H., 5
• “automaton” chess player, 72, 97

• Bacon, Delia S., 55
• “Balloon Hoax,” 123, 124
• Baltimore, 11, 40–75; cholera pandemic in, 61; economy of, 47; map of, 48; Poe’s death in, 174–77, 176; Poe’s house in, 66; view of, 50; Washington University Hospital in, 175, 176
• Baltimore Library Company, 56
• “Bank War,” 86, 96
• barbers, African American, 103–4, 105, 194n49
• Bartlett, William H., 50
• “Berenice,” 33, 66, 70
• Biddle, Nicholas, 86, 93
• Bisco, John, 144–45
• “Black Cat, The,” 9, 11, 33, 88, 110; “Imp of the Perverse” and, 143, 144
• blackface performers, 116
• Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, 136
• “Bon-Bon,” 55
• Boston, 4, 13, 39, 40, 146–47, 178–79, 179
• Bouvier, Michel, 109
• Bransby, John, 20
• Brennan Farm, 129–38, 130, 149
• Briggs, C. F., 144–45, 152, 168–69
• Burke, William, 23
• Burrows, Edwin G., 120
• Burton, William E., 84, 92, 113, 114, 195n67
• Bush, George, 152
• Byron, George Gordon (Lord Byron), 23, 41, 43, 54, 135

• Carey, Henry, 62
• “Cask of Amontillado, The,” 32, 33, 153
• Central Park (New York), 120
• Charlottesville, Va., 4, 13, 34–39, 178
• Chaworth, Mary Ann, 135
• Chivers, Thomas Holly, 132, 134, 145, 147, 198n46
• cholera outbreaks, 61, 170
• “City in the Sea, The,” 46
• city mystery novel, 9
• Clarke, Anne E. C., 81, 192n17
• Clarke, Joseph, 22–23
• Clarke, Thomas, 81, 116
• Clay, E. W., 105
• Clemm, Henry (Poe’s cousin), 51, 65, 67
• Clemm, Maria “Muddy” (Poe’s mother-in-law), 172–74, 189n43; in Baltimore, 43, 46, 51–53, 55, 63–65, 67–70; in New York City, 74, 119, 129–31, 149–50; in Philadelphia, 76, 79–81, 107–9, 111–15
• Clemm, Virginia (Poe’s wife). See Poe, Virginia Clemm
• “Coliseum, The,” 58, 68
• Cooper, James Fenimore, 4, 95
• copyright law, 136–37, 141
• Cowper, William, 40
• Croton Waterworks (New York), 120–21, 156, 157
• cryptography, 96–99, 101, 104

• daguerreotypes, 125, 182
• Daniel, John M., 162, 169
• “Decided Loss, A” (“Loss of Breath”), 33, 55, 61
• Declaration of Independence, 37
• Delphian Club, 56–57, 62, 188n38
• detective stories, 5–8, 72, 97, 101, 104, 135–36, 193n41
• Detwiler, John S., 109
• Devereaux, May (Mary Starr), 63–64, 115, 189n43
• Dickens, Charles, 20, 78, 104–6, 162
• Dickinson, Emily, 4
• “Doings of Gotham,” 11, 123–29, 135
• “Doomed City, The,” 46
• doppelgänger, 20–22, 88
• Douglass, Frederick, 53
• Dow, Jesse E., 84–86, 104, 115–16
• “Dreams,” 41
• “Duc de l’Omelette, The,” 55, 60
• Duganne, A.J.H., 169
• “Dupin, C. Auguste.” See detective stories
• DuSolle, John Stephenson, 86
• Duyckinck, Evert, 142

• Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia), 77, 109–11, 110, 135
• Eaton, John, 43, 44
• “Eldorado,” 167
• “Eleonora,” 107–8
• Ellet, Elizabeth, 147–48, 152, 153
• Ellis, Charles, 16, 22, 30, 185n34
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 4, 162
• English, Thomas Dunn, 86, 113–17, 143; Poe’s conflicts with, 148, 152–53, 155
• Erie Canal, 120
• Eureka, 155–57, 159, 172
• Eveleth, George, 156–57

• “Fall of the House of Usher, The,” 5, 11, 33, 88, 108
• Fay, Theodore S., 70–71
• “Fifty Suggestions,” 167
• Fisher, Sidney George, 77
• Folio Club tales, 58, 61, 62, 72, 188n38, 189n40
• “For Annie,” 165–66
• Foster, George G., 97
• Francis, John W., 140–41
• Franklin, Benjamin, 48, 82, 84, 89, 92
• French, John C., 188n38
• Fuller, Margaret, 148

• Galt, William, 16–17, 22, 28
• Geffen, Elizabeth, 78
• Gill, William Fearing, 131, 188n35
• Gilman, Amy, 101
• Gimbel, Richard, 178
• Godefroy, Maximilien, 49
• Godey, Louis A., 152
• “Gold-Bug, The,” 32, 42, 96–97; theater adaptation of, 116, 118
• gothic fiction, 21, 55, 79, 88, 104, 135
• Gowans, William, 74
• Graham, George Rex, 92–95, 106, 122; Longfellow and, 117, 143; Poe on, 134
• Graves, Samuel “Bully,” 45
• Greeley, Horace, 106, 152
• Grimké, Angelina, 78
• Griswold, Rufus W., 106–7, 167, 176–77
• Gwynn, William, 57

• Harris, Amanda B., 81
• Harrison, William Henry, 86
• Haviland, John, 77–78, 81
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 3–7, 86
• Hewitt, John H., 58, 59
• High Bridge (New York), 156, 157
• Hirst, Henry Beck, 86
• Hone, Philip, 121
• “Hop-Frog,” 32, 167
• Hopkins, John Henry, Jr., 150, 159
• House, C. W., 113
• Howe, Daniel Walker, 2
• “How to Write a Blackwood Article,” 89

• Imbert, Anthony, 105
• immigration, 120
• “Imp of the Perverse, The,” 143–44
• Ingram, John Henry, 190n53
• Irving, Washington, 95, 132
• “Israfel,” 46, 147

• Jackson, Andrew, 86, 96, 141
• Jefferson, Thomas, 15, 30, 34, 37
• Junior Morgan Riflemen (boy’s club), 23

• Kemble, Fanny, 121, 162
• Kennedy, J. Gerald, 21
• Kennedy, John Pendleton, 62, 65–66, 68–69
• Key, Francis Scott, 44
• Kimball, Gregg, 31
• “King Pest,” 61–62
• Kinnell, Galway, 5
• Kirkland, Caroline, 141
• Knight, Henry Cogswell, 15
• Krimmel, Dean, 51–52

• Lafayette, Marquis de, 23
• Lamb, Charles, 18–19
• “Landor’s Cottage,” 160–61
• Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 49
• Lemire, Elise, 103
• Lepore, Jill, 183n6
• “Ligeia,” 88, 108
• Lippard, George, 79, 86
• “Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.,” 135, 137
• “Literati of New York City, The,” 150–53, 155
• Locke, Jane Ermina, 160
• Lofland, John, 56
• London, 4, 13, 18–20, 98
• Long, George, 34
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 95, 172; Poe’s criticism of, 117, 142–44, 148, 153
• Loss, Frederika, 8
• Loud, Marguerite St. Leon, 174
• Lowell, James Russell, 139–40, 143, 146, 168, 169
• Lynch, Anne Charlotte, 141, 148, 161

• Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, 188n36, 189n43, 193n41
• MacKay, Alexander, 15–16, 18
• Mackenzie, Jane, 14
• “Man of the Crowd, The,” 9–10, 20, 98–101
• Manor House School, 20–21
• “Man That Was Used Up, The,” 32, 33, 91–92
• “Marginalia,” 135, 167
• Markey, Mary, 51–52
• Marshall, John, 30
• “Masque of the Red Death, The,” 88
• “Mellonta Tauta,” 167
• Melville, Herman, 4
• “Mesmeric Revelation,” 135
• “Messenger Star, The” (“Al Aaraaf”), 146
• “Metzengerstein,” 55, 60
• Miller family (New York), 149
• Mills, Robert, 25, 26, 49
• Moldavia (Allans’ mansion), 29, 29–30, 37–38, 43, 70
• Monck Mason, Thomas, 123
• Monumental Episcopal Church (Richmond), 24–25, 26, 49
• “Morella,” 67, 108
• Morris, Gorge Pope, 132
• Morrison, N. H., 190n53
• Mosher, Edward, 44
• “Mourner, The,” 41
• Moving Day in Little Old New York, 122, 127
• “Ms. Found in a Bottle,” 58–60, 59
• “Murders in the Rue Morgue, The,” 6, 10–11, 33, 101–2, 194n47
• “Musiad, or Ninead, The,” 56, 188n36
• “Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The,” 6–8

• Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The, 32, 53, 74, 77
• National Historic Site (Spring Garden house), 111–13, 112
• Native Americans, 91
• Neal, John, 44, 89
• “Never Bet the Devil Your Head,” 33
• New York City, 5, 11, 46, 119–57, 178; Central Park in, 120; Croton Waterworks of, 120–21, 156, 157; demographics of, 120; Great Fire of, 120; growth of, 120; guidebooks of, 97–98; High Bridge in, 156, 157; map of, 133; Moving Day in, 122, 127; Poe Park cottage in, 151, 178

• Oberholtzer, Ellis, 111, 194n55
• “Oblong Box, The,” 135
• Old Point Comfort, Va., 4, 172–74
• Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 109
• Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 147–48, 152, 153, 161
• O’Sullivan, John, 141

• Panic of 1819, 22
• Panic of 1837, 74, 76–77, 86; New York City and, 120; in “Peter Pendulum,” 89
• Patterson, Edwin H. N., 169, 171–72
• Patterson, Louisa, 45
• Paulding, James Kirke, 82–83
• Payne, John Howard, 1–3
• Perry, Edgar A. (Poe pseudonym), 41, 42
• “Peter Pendulum, The Business Man,” 89–90, 92, 128, 196n17
• Philadelphia, 76–118, 122, 170–71, 178; Dickens on, 78; Eastern State Penitentiary in, 77, 109–11, 110, 135; guidebooks of, 97–98; map of, 85; Poe’s house in, 111–13, 112; race riot in, 104; Sanitary Commission of, 79, 100; view of, 80; Walnut Street Theatre in, 116, 118; xenophobic riots in, 78–79
• Phillips, Mary E., 186n43
• Physick, Philip, 81
• Pierce, Franklin, 3–4
• “Pit and the Pendulum, The,” 33, 88, 110–11
• Poe, David (father), 14–18
• Poe, David (grandfather), 43
• Poe, Edgar Allan: alcoholism of, 35, 73, 113–17, 145, 156, 170; in Army, 41–43; as athlete, 23; childhood of, 14–23; on copyright law, 136–37, 141; cryptography and, 96–99, 101, 104; death of, 174–76, 176, 200n25; dueling challenge by, 162; funeral of, 175–76; on gossip, 125–26; legacy of, 176–80; libel suit of, 152, 155; as literary critic, 70–72, 75, 88–89, 93, 116–17, 139; marriage of, 69–70, 190n53; monuments to, 177–79, 179; name change by, 24; on omnibus travel, 132; political views of, 141; salary in Philadelphia of, 95; scandals of, 147–48, 152–53; slave culture and, 32–34, 52–53; on street paving, 128–29; suicide attempt by, 165–66; at University of Virginia, 34–39; on urban types, 98–99. See also individual works
• Poe, Elizabeth Cairnes (grandmother), 43, 52, 67
• Poe, Eliza Hopkins (mother), 13, 17, 24–27, 39, 60
• Poe, George, Jr. (cousin), 69, 70
• Poe, Neilson (cousin), 57, 68–69, 174–75, 190n53, 200n25
• Poe, Rosalie (sister), 14
• Poe, Virginia Clemm (Poe’s wife), 165; in Baltimore, 51, 64–65, 67–70; illness of, 107–9, 122, 153–54, 156–57; marriage of, 69–70, 190n53; in New York City, 74, 119, 129–31, 149–50, 153–54; in Philadelphia, 76, 79–81, 107–9, 111–13; valentine poem by, 149
• Poe, William (cousin), 69, 70
• Poe, William Henry Leonard (brother), 14, 27, 37; alcoholism of, 51; in Baltimore, 53; death of, 65
• Poe Memorial Association, 178
• Poems by Edgar A. Poe, Second Edition, 46
• Poe Park cottage (New York), 151, 178
• “Poetic Principle, The,” 167, 172
• “Poe Toaster” (visitor to Poe’s grave), 177
• “Poets and Poetry of America, The,” 142
• Pollack, J. R., 94
• Pollin, Burton R., 190n53
• Power, Anna Marsh, 164
• “Predicament, A,” 32, 33, 89
• “Premature Burial, The,” 135
• “Psyche Zenobia, The,” 89
• “Purloined Letter, The,” 135, 136

• Quinn, Arthur Hobson, 189n43

• racial stereotypes, 103–4, 105, 116, 194n49
• Randolph family, 29–30
• “Raven, The,” 137–41, 146, 147; “Ulalume” and, 154–55
• Raven and Other Poems, The, 141–42
• Reid, Thomas Mayne, 111–12
• Richmond, Charles, 161
• Richmond, Nancy “Annie,” 160–61, 165, 167–69, 173
• Richmond, Va., 4–5, 13–18, 22–39, 169–76, 178; development plan of, 17; Monumental Episcopal Church, 24–25, 26, 49; Shockoe Hill Cemetery, 25–27, 28, 70; slave trade of, 30–31; views of, 16
• Rockman, Seth, 51
• Rocknak, Stefanie, 178–79, 179
• Rogers, Mary Cecilia, 6–7
• Royster, James, 186n43

• Sachse, E., 16
• Sartain, John, 86, 170
• Semtner, Chris, 23
• “Shadow—A Parable,” 60, 189n40
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 19–20
• Shelton, Alexander, 36
• Shelton, Elmira Royster, 36–37, 162, 172–74, 173
• Shew, Marie Louise, 159, 160, 189n43
• Shockoe Hill Cemetery (Richmond), 25–27, 28, 70
• “Silence” (“Siope”), 189n40
• Silverman, Kenneth, 186n45, 189n43
• slave trade, 30–34, 185n34
• Smith, Elizabeth Oakes, 139
• Snodgrass, Joseph, 174, 175
• “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House,” 136–37
• “Some Words with a Mummy,” 136
• Spring Garden house (National Historic Site), 111–13, 112
• Stanard, Jane Stith, 25–27, 28, 60, 70
• Stanard, Robert Craig, 25
• Starr, Mary (Mary Devereaux), 63–64, 115, 189n43
• Steele, Silas S., 116
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 4
• Strickland, William, 78
• Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline, 121
• Sullivan’s Island, S.C., 4, 41–42, 96, 123
• “System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, The,” 135–36

• “Tale of Jerusalem,” 55
• Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 84, 96
• Tamerlane and Other Poems, 40–41, 46
• Tanner, Henry S., Jr., 85
• Tappan, Henry Philip, 121
• “Tell-Tale Heart, The,” 9, 33, 88, 110, 144
• temperance movement, 113
• Thomas, Calvin A., 40
• Thomas, Dwight Rembert, 191n13
• Thomas, Frederick W., 86, 106, 109, 115, 132–34, 139, 167
• Thoreau, Henry David, 4, 162
• “Thou Art the Man!,” 33, 135
• “Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade, The,” 136
• “To Helen,” 25–27, 40, 46, 161
• “To My Mother,” 158–59, 167
• Trollope, Frances, 49
• Tuan, Yi-Fu, 3
• Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly, 73
• Tuckerman, Henry, 140–41
• Tuhey, James, 189n43
• Turner, Nat, 32
• Tyler, John, 115, 141
• Tyler-McGraw, Marie, 31

• “Ulalume,” 154–55
• University of Virginia, 4, 13, 34–39, 178

• vagabondage, 2, 3
• Valentine, Anne Moore (“Aunt Nancy”), 18
• Valentine family, 17

• Walker, Joseph, 174
• Wallace, Mike, 120
• Wallace, William Ross, 139
• Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia), 116, 118
• Walsh, John, 188n30
• Walter, Cornelia Wells, 146–47
• Walter, Thomas U., 78
• War of 1812 monument, 49
• Washington, George, 49
• Washington University Hospital (Baltimore), 175, 176
• Watson, Henry, 31, 34, 144
• West Point, N.Y, 43–46
• Whalen, Terence, 190n57
• White, J. H. “Coal,” 116
• White, Thomas Willis, 66, 67, 69, 72–73, 84
• Whitman, Sarah Helen, 161, 163–67, 169, 189n43
• Whitman, Walt, 4, 5, 127, 177
• Whitty, James H., 178, 189n43
• Wilbur, Richard, 5
• Williams, William Carlos, 179–80
• “William Wilson,” 20–22, 88
• Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 125–26, 132, 138, 140, 152, 161
• Wilmer, Lambert, 37, 64–65, 116–17
• Wordsworth, William, 18
• Wyatt, Thomas, 94

• Yarrington, Martha, 69, 70
• Young America movement, 141–42

• Zolnay, Julian, 178