New York Times April 20, 2012
Poe Taunts Filmmakers Evermore
By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
IT’S probably safe to assume that Edgar Allan Poe does not rest quietly in the Baltimore grave that claimed him, at 40, in 1849. In the works that made him famous — poems like “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee,” stories like “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Ligeia” — death is never quite the end: something lives on, not happily.
Poe died nearly half a century before the invention of cinema, but the movies knew a kindred spirit when they saw one, and began almost immediately to stir his ashes and rattle his crumbling bones. . . .
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[A new movie on Poe, The Raven, opens on April 20, 2012.]
