Poe's Pervasive Influence

Poe’s Pervasive Influence is the long-awaited collection that grew out of the Third International Poe Conference in 2009, sponsored by the Poe Studies Association to celebrate the bicentennial of Poe’s birth. [Its] essays have a freshness that warrants the careful attention of those drawn to the international scope of Poe’s work—as well as to Poe’s potential to influence more generally. . . . The volume coheres in a way that is rare for published proceedings, largely because of Cantalupo’s clarity of vision regarding how Poe has informed and inspired important and original international writers—most notably Edogawa Rampo in Japan, Fernando Pessoa and others in Portugal, and Nikolai Gogol in Russia—as well as how Poe has been taken up and sometimes taken to task by American authors.
--William E. Engel, Sewanee: The University of the South, Poe Studies