Works referencing the works of writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Comic Books
- The Sandman (1989): In a piece of overt Popcultural Osmosis Failure Matthew the Raven perches on a bust and says "Nevermore!", then says he got it from the Roger Corman movie.
- Wonder Woman (1942): "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" is referenced in the Huntress feature, though it does not become evident until issue 305 when it is revealed Dr. Amos Tarr has taken over Arkham and put some of the less violent inmates in charge of the front desk and in different positions posing as staff.
- In the Turning Red/Futari wa Pretty Cure crossover fic Maple Sugar Pretty Cure, Priya's Cure name is Cure Evermore.
Films
- The Pale Blue Eye involves the murder and mutilation of a cadet at West Point Military Academy in 1830. The main protagonist who is investigating the crime is aided by Edgar Poe, who is a cadet there.
- American Gods:"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven. - In the Anno Dracula series, Poe has had his (un)life extended when Virgina comes back as a vampire and brings him across as well. In The Bloody Red Baron he's writing propaganda for the Germans during World War One due to a hatred of the Unionist United States that won the American Civil War.
- Discworld: Death of Rat's personal sidekick, translator and even occasional transport is a Raven named Quoth the Raven. He is also so sick of being asked to say "Nevermore" that he refuses outright and refers to it as "the N word".
- In Medusa's Web, Aunt Amity's ghost has a penchant for quoting from "The Fall of the House of Usher", which offers some subtext about the house and its occupants and foreshadows the house's destruction at the end.
- The Shining by Stephen King. People under the control of the Outlook Hotel often quote from The Masque of the Red Death.
- Tales from the Haunted Mansion: In the fourth volume, "Memento Mori", Dr. Ackerman, a psychologist that runs the Shepparton Sanitarium, has an unhealthy obsession with Poe's stories and ends up coaxing retired horror writer Prudence Pock into visiting his Poe collections as a means of luring her into his Poe diorama murder dungeon to become part of a "Cask of Amontillado" display. When Pock's ghost begins haunting him into insanity, he sees visions of himself being bricked into his padded room by the trowel wielding undead hand seen in the attraction. Poe's ghost himself appears in passing as a guest at a story telling competition at the Mansion.
- Usher II by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist gets revenge on the Moral Guardians responsible for Book Burning his library by arranging their murders in the manner of Poe's works.
- Altered Carbon. Poe is the avatar of the Artificial Intelligence that runs The Raven Hotel. Needless to say, he quotes the writings of the real Poe several times. In Season 2 Poe befriends a female AI avatar designated as Dig 301, who adopts the moniker of Annabel Lee as a Meaningful Rename.
- Homicide: Life on the Street: In the fourth season episode "Heartbeat", Howard and Munch get a 10-year old murder case, and find out their suspect was obsessed with Poe. When they interrogate the suspect in the box, Munch has someone play the sound of a heartbeat into the room. At the end of the episode the suspect goes mad and seals himself up in a wall.
- The Wire: In the third season episode "All Due Respect", one guard at a Barksdale stash house is telling another guard about a confused tourist who was looking for the Edgar Allan Poe house (though the guard mishears it as "Edward Allen Poe").
- Wednesday: Nevermore Academy, the school for outcasts where Wednesday Addams is sent, has Poe as its most famous alumnus (implying that in-show he was a supernatural creature too), and also has the Edgar Allan Poe canoe cup, where four teams named after some of his most famous works compete.
- The Neko Case song "Furnace Room Lullaby" is inspired by "The Tell-Tale Heart", describing a murderer who still hears their victim's heart and goes insane from it.
- The opening track of German Synth-Pop band Propaganda's A Secret Wish (1985) is a recitation of "A Dream Within a Dream".
- Lou Reed's The Raven is a Concept Album based on Poe's works.
- He is name checked in The Beatles song ’’I Am The Walrus’’
- The Austrian entry into the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, from Teya & Salena, asks "Who The Hell is Edgar?" and involves the duo comparing themselves, and their positions as songwriters, to him.
- The Creature Feature song "Buried Alive" is a homage to Poe's works, citing several of them by name; even the title refers to how being Buried Alive is a major motif in Poe's stories.
- In My Singing Monsters, Poewk is a Shout-Out to him, and their birdlike mask may be inspired by The Raven
- In Persona 5, the lyrics to the song "Beneath the Mask" are directly inspired by, and even reference, The Masque of the Red DeathI'm a shapeshifter, at Poe's masquerade,Hiding both face and mind, all free for you to drawI'm a shapeshifter, what else should I be?Please don't take off my mask, revealing dark
- In RuneScape, there’s a wine seller in Draynor Village named Fortunado. Examining him yields “He looks like as if could do with a sip of amontillado.”
- Bernadette Banner did a video in which she created a costume inspired by The Masque of the Red Death.
- Hark! A Vagrant's book cover interpretation comics
included a cover of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, with Poe himself telling the reader to wait and see if that's racist like "Oriental".
- Rocky and Bullwinkle: An episode of "Bullwinkle's Corner" parodies "The Raven".
- Spongebob Squarepants: The episode "Squeaky Boots" is a Whole-Plot Reference to "The Tell-Tale Heart."
- South Park has one episode where the Goth Kids summon Poe's ghost with a seance. He talks and acts like a stereotypical whiny edgy Emo teen.
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has Sir Raven, a Recurring Extra on the show that is an obvious allusion to "Nevermore".
