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The Poe encyclopedia / Frederick S. Frank and Anthony Magistrale.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-313-27768-0 (alk. paper)

1. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Encyclopedias. 2. Fantastic
literature, American--Encyclopedias. I. Frank, Frederick S.
II. Magistrale, Tony. III. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849.

PS2630.P58 1997

818'.309--dc2O 96-22005

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright © 1997 by Frederick S. Frank and Anthony Magistrale

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-22005

ISBN: 0-313-27768-0

First published in 1997

Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881

An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for the use of the following
material:

From The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Volume One, poems edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott
. Copyright © 1969 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press.

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