A Poe Webliography by Heyward Ehrlich

Heyward Ehrlich
A Poe Webliography:
Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet

A critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic texts, HTML-encoded texts, hypertexts, secondary works, commentaries, and indexes. First published in Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 30 (1997), 1-26. (Links last checked 23 June 2010.)

For more than a decade the list has retained the item numbers of the original article in Poe Studies. However, no further updating is possible, and thus a completely new 2nd. edition of Poesites is in progress. It will contain library databases, online references, text archives, research and teaching, Web directories, search engines, and Web 2.0 features.

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Table of Contents

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A. General Starting Sites:

Use these sites to start your survey of Poe materials online.

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore:
http://www.eapoe.org (New address.)

Now the most intellectually ambitious and the most critically significant of all Poe web sites. Must-see browsing for all serious students of Poe. Continually updated on multiple levels, this site contains serious discussions of Poe bibliography, the state of Poe's poetry in e-text form, and a dozen other significant issues. Don't miss the sections on Poe Topics and Poe Works, part of a larger project to put the version history of everything Poe wrote and as many actual texts as possible online. The text posted of "The Journal of Julius Rodman" is one of many electronic firsts at this site. For details see Edited Texts, below.

Peter Forrest's Fall of the House of Usher:
http://www.houseofusher.net/ [New address]

Deservedly the most widely used Poe site on the Internet. Although nominally a "fan site," well balanced, regularly updated, wide reaching, and deep in resources. For guidance, look at the library page (http://www.houseofusher.net/library.html with its huge collection of information concerning Poe, including artwork, audio, bibliographies, biographies, books, complete works, crticisms, cryptography, encyclopedias, essays, historical sites, multimedia, references, RSS, search, societies, timeline, translations, video, works. and more!

Poe Decoder:
http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/

Features comments and intepretations by Christoffer Nilson ("Qrisse') and others to "decode" Poe, and to provide ample Poe trivia and useful links to other Poe sites. One feature is Martha Womack's Precisely Poe, which offers to answer questions about Poe.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism: Poe:
href="http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=poe-10"

Selected collections of critical, biographical, and other discussions of Poe. A few more IPL criticism links: Poe Essays | Poe Poems | Poe Tales [New addresses.]

Gothic Net:
http://www.gothic.net/poe
Interesting resources and a site search if you can wait out the graphics.

Authors of Supernatural Horror:
(http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/poe.sht [No longer available]>

"http://www.nadn.navy.mil/EnglishDept/poeperplex/thepoepe.htm">The Poe Perplex: [No longer available.]
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/EnglishDept/poeperplex/thepoepe.htm

Stefan Gmoser:
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/ [No longer available.]

Good starting site with texts from UM-St. Louis, formatted with HTML encoding and searchable with a grep-based engine. Some longer files, such the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the composite entitled "Criticism" are also available as separate chapters or articles.

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B. Plain Electronic Texts:

These e-texts are plain ASCII, without pagination or other formatting, and can be obtained via FTP, Gopher, or HTTP. Once downloaded, they are easily read or searched using text editing, word processing, or file utility software. But they have not been proofread or verified against printed texts. For a census of Poe e-texts at these sites, see Table I. Many plain texts are also available in CD-ROM format: see Section G.

The Internet Wiretap Electronic Text Archive [No longer available]:
http://wiretap.spies.com/Gopher/Library/Classics/Poe/

Contains plain texts of 28 Poe tales and sketches, later drawn upon for scholarly study.
Still available at: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/literary/etext/Poe.
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/etext/wiretap-classic-library/Poe {nolonger available].
Three of the 28 Internet Wiretap texts, "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Tell-Tale Heart," formerly found at Online Book Initiative (OBI): (ftp://ftp.std.com/obi/Edgar.Allan.Poe/) [No longer available]
ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/literary/obi/Edgar.Allan.Poe/ [No longer availabke].

Oxford Text Archive
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk:

Several experimental OTA entry pages have been removed.
The OTA contains two sets of Poe e-texts: 13 works derived from Internet Wiretap (P-1855-A), and two additional tales, "Usher" and "Ligeia," from the 1967 Penguin edition (U*-1244-A).

Toronto Library [No longer available] :
http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction/poee_poett/poett_titlepage.html

Thirteen tales from OTA, encoded in HTML. Start at Title page (http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction/poee_poett/poett_titlepage.html) or investigate the texts individually at 13 texts (http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction/poee_poett/poett_all.html).
Additional versions of two of these e-texts ("Usher" and "Ligeia") are at Title page (http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction/poee_poeusli/poeusli_titlepage.hmtl) and these two tales are individually at 2 texts (http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/utel/fiction/poee_poeusli/poeusli_all.html).
All 15 texts are also available on the CD-ROM accompanying Ian Lancashire, Using TACT with Electronic Texts (New York: MLA, 1996).

Virginia Tech: Eris Collection [No longer available]
gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/11/134

Formerly a large online repository of Poe e-texts, comprising 142 works in 122 files, including 69 tales, 51 poems, and two clusters of criticism containing an additional 13 critical articles and nine installments of Marginalia.
Note: The Eris Collection was discontinued in September 1998 with a notice, never actuated, that the files would be available from Project Gutenberg. But a similar group of texts was available at UM-St. Louis (gopher://gopher.umsl.edu:70/11/library/stacks/books/poe [No longer available]) and on CD-ROM as Library of the Future (4th ed.) and as Corel World's Greatest Classic Books.

UM-St. Louis Gopher:
(gopher://gopher.umsl.edu:70/11/library/stacks/books/poe [No longer available]

About 120 Poe files via Gopher. Based on a Walnut Creek CD-ROM briefly available in 1992. This group of Poe e-texts, similar in content to the former Virginia Tech gopher site (discontinued in 1998) was for a time also available with HTML encoding and grep search capability at the site of Stefan Gmoser (http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe [No longer available].

WorldNet [No longer available]
http://worldnet.simplenet.com/entertainment/literature/poetry_stories/authors/edgar_allan_poe/

Formerly some 120 Poe files, including Eureka, similar to the (also discontinued) Virginia Tech site. But most of these Poe e-texts were for a time still available at the UM-St. Louis site above.

Mindspring: Thorazine [No longer available.]
http://www.mindspring.com/~thorazine/Poe/
Another source for 122 Poe e-texts.

Pambytes [No longer available]
http://www.pambytes.com/poe/poe.html
A selection of 53 Poe e-texts.

Project Gutenberg: [New address]
http://promo.net/pg/index.html

The four previous texts at ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/etext97
as lepoe10.txt and usher10.txt have been removed.
Project Gutenberg now offers the complete five-volume "Raven" edition of Poe. Click on search and select as author "Poe" at the address above. (For some reason only 85 the approximately 120 Poe works at this site were reported in a test of this search.)

The Oxford Book of English Verse:
http://www.bartleby.com/101/index2e.html
Scroll down to "Poe" under authors.

Eureka [No longer available]
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/eureka.html /

Three reviews of Hawthorne tales: [No longer available]
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhcrit.html

The Library of America text of three reviews by Poe:
(1) [No longer available] "Twice Told Tales," Graham's Magazine, April, 1842: http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoea.html;
(2) [No longer available] "Twice Told Tales," Graham's Magazine, May, 1842:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoe1.html; and
(3) [No longer available] "Tale-Writing" Godey's Lady's Book, Nov. 1847:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/nhpoe2.html.

"The Daguerrreotype":
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/poe.html [No longer available.]
From Alexander's Weekly Magazine, Jan. 15, 1840.

"The Literati of New York City": [No longer available]
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/samples/literati.htm
A proposed item in the Early American Fiction project.

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C: HTML- and SGML-Encoded Text Projects:

HTML and SGML encoding in these e-texts includes pagination, special handling of foreign accents and unusual characters, notes on printed sources, and detailed formatting information. Many of the texts in this group have been repaginated according the 1902 Harrison edition, but the texts themselves have not been verified as Harrison's. At Virginia, Michigan [No longer available.], and Oxford [No longer available], the Poe e-texts are integrated into corpora of some 600 works of Modern English literature, all of which may be investigated in a single search. Two of the sophisticated search engines to be found at these sites are PAT, designed for the Oxford English Dictionary to deal with historical variants in spelling, and Glimpse, a string search utility similar to UNIX grep. (For a census of Poe texts at these sites, see Table I.) [Obsolete]

University of Virginia: Electronic Text Center (ETC): Modern English Collection:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modengP.browse.html

Scroll down under the letter P. Contains links to 30 Poe items at the Modern English Collection of the Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia, including 29 texts from the Wiretap bulletin board or Oxford Text Archive (see above) and an upload of "Annabel Lee." The texts are stored locally as SGML but are converted to HTML upon request via the Web. A few of these texts have been repaginated according to the Harrison edition.
Local search index: Public Access Modern English Collection:
http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/lv4/modeng/www/modeng-pub.o2w [No longer available.]
University of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative (HTI):
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/bibl.html [No longer available.]

Scroll down to twenty-seven Poe items available in both HTML and SGML format in the Public Domain Modern English Text Collection of the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan. Search for "Poe, Edgar Allan." Many of these tales and sketches have been paginated according to the Harrison edition . The Michigan HTI Poe collection is generally similar in content to the Virginia ETC collection, but lacks "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Gold-Bug," and "Ligeia." The Michigan HTI permits remote access to both the HTML and SGML versions. The SGML versions require SGML parser software in addition to a Web browser.
The collection may be searched at HTI Modern English, Simple Search [No longer available.]
http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/simple.html
The Oxford English Dictionary Online Library:
http://www.oed.com/corpus.html
Requires password [No longer available].

The OED Online Library contains 30 Poe texts, apparently the same as those at the Michigan HTI, as part of the North American Reading Program (NARP), incorporated into a general archive of literature of more than 600 works in Modern English, searchable in a single query. The two unidentified items in the Poe menu are "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget." A similar group of Poe works from the Michigan HTI, also requiring a password, is posted to www.oed.com/jpw.html [No longer available].

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D. Edited E-Texts & Special Collections:

For a census of Poe sites, see the Poe census page.

The Poe Society of Baltimore
http://www.eapoe.org/

The Poe Society of Baltimore contains a large (and constantly growing) number of Poe e-texts scanned from original editions and set within a bibliography of known variant editions. Each e-text cites its historical source but does not contain the original pagination. The site already contains more Poe e-texts than any other and continues to grow in size and scope.
The overall index of primary materials is subdivided divided into poems, tales, essays and sketches, miscellanies, criticisms, and letters.
Secondary materials include surveys of Poe editions, the Poe canon [New address], and selected Poe topics for discussion.

Complete Poems (1911), ed J. H. Whitty:
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?page=bibl [No longer available.]

Scroll down to Poe. An electronic facsimile of Complete Poems (1911), ed. J. H. Whitty, with his introduction of 86 pages and 297 pages of editorial text comprising a "memoir, textual notes and bibliography," from the University of Michigan HTI, American Verse Collection.
This electronic Whitty edition adds five (5) poems to the fifty-one (51) poems already online elsewhere: "Impromptu to Kate Carol," "Latin Hymn," "Oh Tempora! Oh Mores," "Song of Triumph," and "Spiritual Song."
Note: this electronic publication lacks any warning that Whitty's text includes nine (9) doubtful poems which Mabbott subsequently rejected: "An Enigma" (p. 146), "From an Album" (p. 141), "Gratitude" (p. 144)", Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius" (p. 158), "The Great Man" (p. 144), "The Magician" (p, 156), "The Mammoth Squash" (p. 159), "The Skeleton Hand" (p. 153), and "To Sarah" (p. 142) (Mabbott, Collected Works, 1:593 and passim).

Documenting the American South: A Digitized Library of Southern Literature:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/poe/menu.html Tales (Wiley & Putnam, 1845) |

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/poeraven/menu.html The Raven and Other Poems (Wiley & Putnam, 1845) |

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/1840poe1/menu.html Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Vol. I |

http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/1840poe2/menu.html Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. Vol. II :

Tales include "The Gold-bug," "The Black Cat," "Mesmeric Revelation," "Lionizing," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "A Descent into the Maelstrom," "The Colloquy of Monos and Una," "The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget." "The Purloined Letter," "The Man in the Crowd."

Eight poems from Representative Poetry On-Line:
(http://library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/poe.html [No longer available])

Contains "Annabel Lee," "The City in the Sea," "A Dream," "A Dream within a Dream," "For Annie," "The Raven," "To Helen," and "To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad," edited by Ian Lancashire et al.
Each poem contains line-encoded notes and the publication history of the text, citing editions in Poe's lifetime, annotations in the J. Lorimer Graham copy, and editions by Griswold (1850), Mabbott (1969), and others. For the Toronto project encoding guidelines, see (http://library.utoronto.ca/rp/tagging.html. [No longer available]) Although promised to be "part of the TACT manual to be published by the Modern Language Association," the CD-ROM as eventually published does not include these texts.

Early American Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/eap.html [New address required]

The project includes public access to edited texts of Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, and selections from early biographies, and some manusscript materials. Additional texts are restricted to local users at the University of Virginia.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University:

Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Verses (Baltimore, 1829): [No longer available]
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/rare/70.html

"Annabel Lee" MS., signed: [No longer available]
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/rare/76.html

The Pratt daguerreotype portrait, Richmond, 1849: [No longer available]
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/rare/77.html

The Making of America: Univ. of Michigan and Cornell University:

The Making of America - Michigan:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/

Digital preservation and access project of American books and magazines, chiefly between 1850 and 1899, searchable at the University of Michigan (http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/moa). A sample search for "Poe" returns 2566 matches in 1175 books or journals, including a significant run of the Southern Literary Messenger.
Digital page images in the MOA project are also available at Making of America - Cornell:
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa

The Ingram-Poe Collection
University of Virginia Library, By John C. Miller
http://gopher.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/colls/poemill.html [No longer available]

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E. Hypertext-Augmented Editions and Class Projects:

Adam Michaels, "The Fall of the House of Usher":
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~poe/usher.html [No longer available]

Classroom issues and strategies:
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/poe.html [No longer available]
By William Goldhurst.

Illusion vs Reality in Poe's Works (senior project) [No longer available]:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~jkellogg/menu.html

Character analysis ("Tell-Tale Heart") [No longer available]
http://bambi.acc.nccu.edu/~tsawyer/

The Writing Center of William Rainey Harper College:
http://info2.harper.cc.il.us/writ_ctr/poe.htm
Includes commentaries on five Poe tales.

"The Fall of the House of Usher" Page at the University of Texas: [No longer available]:
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Poe/poe.html

Colophon: Student Hypertext Project at University of Virginia:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/contents.html

A class project to verify e-texts of 81 Poe tales and sketches, chiefly from the former Virginia Tech Eris and Virginia ETC collections, paginated according to the Library of America edition.

Palimpsest Online! Penn State's Electronic Classics Series:
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/poe.htm

The Edgar Allan Poe page contains five tales and a poem for downloading and printing in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

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F. Secondary Materials:

Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~english/PoeStudies.html

The home page of Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, Alexander Hammond, editor, and Jana L. Argersinger, associate editor. This Web page is an online version of a PS< article (30:1-26).

Poe Studies Association: Edgar Allan Poe Review:
http://www.an.psu.edu/PSA [New address]:

My PSA Newsletter columns on "Poe in Cyberspace" also appear at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/psa/

http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Main?action=new
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database:
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu

Search the "Literature Database" and "The Reading Room" for discussions of medical aspects of "The Conqueror Worm," "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," "For Annie," "Hop-Frog," "The Imp of the Perverse," "The Masque of the Red Death," "Sonnet - to Science," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather," and "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains."

Perspectives on American Literature (Paul R. Reuben):
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/poe.html [New address]
Selected bibliography and a list of scholarly articles.

>Lecture Notes on Poe from Prof. Campbell's English 311:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1-16-98.html [No longer available]

Trackstar: Questions and answers:
http://scrtec.org/track/tracks/s00630.html [No longer available]
Try the links to representative Poe sites in the frames version.

Maryland Humanities Council: [No longer available]:
http://www.mdhc.org/magazine.htm
"Edgar Allan Poe and Baltimore" by Doug Bouter.

Author Sheet (treatments of Poe in books)
http://www.clpgh.org/clp/Humanities/poe.html [No longer available]

"Edgar Allan Poe's Literary Neighborhood" by W. Leigh Branson [No longer available]:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/5485/
Poe's relations with Graham's and Godey's.

Two 19th century Atlantic Monthly reviews:

(1) Poetical Works (October, 1859):
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/poe1.htm
(2) Woodberry and Stedman (April, 1896):
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/classrev/poe2.htm

Poe in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1901):
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/432.html [No longer available]

Poe in Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/10321.html [No longer available]

Evert A. Duyckinck, "Edgar Allan Poe," Cyclopedia of American Literature (1856):
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/cal/eapCal.html [No longer available])

Samuel Austin Allibone
A Critical History of English Literature and British and American Authors (1900)
(http://etext.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/allibone/eapAl.html [No longer available]) ...

Poe in Edward Simonds, A Student's History of American Literature
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/Simonds/SHAL/p5-chap4.html .

Alberto Cappi's discussion of Eureka:
http://www.bo.astro.it/~cappi/poe.html

Poe on Cryptography:
http://shakti.trincoll.edu/rmorelli/FYSM122/Cryptograms/Poe.html [No longer available]
A discussion of Poe's article in Alexander's.

Also Shawn Rosenheim's Edgar Allan Poe Cryptographic Challenge:
http://www.bokler.com/eapoe.html

Cybertour by Dauphin County Library System
http://www.dcls.org/x/archives/poe.html -- New address
An introductory survey of electronic Poe resources for adult readers.

Poe's Virtual Library
deathstar.comnet.ca/~forrest/library.html[New address]

Essays and Criticisms
deathstar.comnet.ca/~forrest/essays.html [No longer available]

Webquest
Created by Robin Stephens, Ed Simpson, and Skip Frye.
www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests/Poe%20WebQuest/poe.html [No longer available]

Bookworms Are Creepy Crawlies
The Weird Wide Web. Mining Company Guide
englishlit.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa102597.htm [No longer available]

CT109: Pathfinders
CT109 Subject Research Guides, Webliographies and Pathfinders.
www.marshall.edu/isp/ct109/path2.htm [No longer available]

Research Guide: Edgar Allan Poe
Joan Reitz's guide (formerly WCSU Libraries)
http://people.wcsu.edu/reitzj/subj/poe.html[New address]

Edgar Allan Poe Sites on the Internet
bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Sites.html [No longer available]

Donna Campbell,now at WSU: Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, bibliography and links
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/poe.htm

American Gothic [No longer available]:

An Internet Hotlist on American Gothic Romance
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listamericang.html

Autori - Home pages
Scrittori, Scrittori. Pagine web dedicate a singoli autori
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/asb/testi/autori.html [No longer available]

Lyric online links:
Lyrikadressen im WWW - poetry in the web
www.lyrik.ch/links.htm - in German [No longer available]

The Poe Page
(www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Sands/8842/poe.html [No longer available])

Edgar Allan Poe - Empire:Zine - April 1998 [No longer available]
Biography, poems & prose listing, links
spydersempire.com/empirezine/features/april/poe5.htm

Research Guide to Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/gd_poe.html [No longer available: See Joan Reitz above]
A dozen Poe Web resources and standard background reference works and periodicals, from Western Connecticut State University library.

Internet Sites for Electronic Literature: [No longer available]
from Choice magazine, April 1997.
http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/choice.htm

Unfortunately the comments here confuse two separate sites, namely http://www.eapoe.org and http://www.houseofusher.net/index.html.

English and American Literary Resources
Library collections and Web Sites by period, Univ. of Connecticut Libraries.
(http://www.lib.uconn.edu/subjectareas/engweb.html [No longer available])

Literature and Readings Resources The Maine Lit Ring.
(http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/books.htm [No longer available])

The UCLA Humanities E-Compass:
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/e-compass/courses/title.html
A searchable WWW Links Database created for student use. [No longer available.]

Daniel "What is Thinking?":
http://www.ibm.com/thinkmag/articles/thinking/main.html [No longer available]
Mentions Poe's discussion of chess-playing machines.

Robert Block, "Poe and Lovecraft":
(http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/bloch.sht [No longer available])

David Tomlinson, "The Humor of Edgar Allan Poe":
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/poe_humor/poexx.htm

Paul Collins, "Tuberculosis and Poe's Ligeia":
(http://users.aol.com/paulcllins/respoe.html [No longer available])

"Did Poe Die of Rabies?": [No longer available]
http://www.rabies.com/nws_poe.htm

Poe and Rabies
From Chronicle of Higher Education [No longer available]:

Poe's Home on the Net: [No longer available]
http://www.ea-poe.org/home.htm
PoeMark post cards by Jared Koenig, begun while still a high school student.

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G. CD-ROM and Commercial E-texts:

Web addresses are given where available.

Library of the Future (CD-ROM, 4th ed.):
About 140 Poe works in a large general anthology from Microleague Multimedia Inc. Similar in contents to e-texts online at UM-St. Louis [formerly available at Virginia Tech and Worldnet].

Individual titles (with summaries) from McGraw Hill Primus Custom Publishing.
http://www.mhhe.com/primis/catalog/pcatalog/F2033843.htm [No longer available]

Corel World's Greatest Classic Books (CD-ROM):
Contents similar to Library of the Future CD-ROM, above. Product no longer available from Corel.

Ian Lancashire, Using TACT with Electronic Texts (New York: MLA, 1996)(with CD-ROM):

Includes 15 Poe e-texts from the North American Reading Program (NARP) with light SGML encoding, suitable for the accompanying TACT software.

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry (CD-ROM):

The electronic version of the Granger index to poetry anthologies contains full e-texts of 27 Poe poems and references to 42 Poe poems in anthologies.

English Poetry Plus (Films for the Humanities & Sciences):
Multimedia CD-ROM from Chadwyck-Healey includes 16 poems by Poe.

Classic Library (Andromeda Interactive CD-ROM):
Includes 21 Poe poems.

E-Text Plus: "Dark Tales from Edgar Allan Poe": [No longer available]
http://www.sky.net/~parnote/etext.htm

Five tales in multimedia Windows 3.x/95 Help file format: "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" (available gratis), plus "Hop-Frog," "The Raven," and "The Pit and the Pendulum" (after registration fee).

Ray Rischpater: The Raven (NewtonBook format): [No longer available]
http://www.lothlorien.com/~dove/pda/NewtonLit.html

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H. Literary Indexes and Book Listings:

Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://infomotions.com/alex/ -- New address:

The first effective index of literary e-texts on the Web, begun by Hunter Monroe in 1994, now frozen with a total of about 2,000 items.

Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu):[New address]
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

The most important and extensive Web site for literary and humanistic research, including links to sites for e-texts, theory, criticism, and syllabi, classified by nationality, period, author, genre, and special topics. Scroll down to Poe.

Jack Lynch Literary Resources: [Formerly at Penn]:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

A major starting point for literary research, including a compendium of other scholarly sites and materials and featuring an ongoing list of calls for papers. Scroll down to Poe.

IPL: Internet Public Library: Index to Online Books:
(http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ [No longer available])

Click on "P" and scroll down to Poe. A useful webliography currently of 35 links to Poe e-texts, mainly at the Virginia ETC.

IPL OnLine Texts:
(http://readroom.ipl.org/bin/ipl/ipl.books-idx.pl?type=browseauthor&q1=P [No longer available])
Scroll down to Poe.

Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism: Poe:
(http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=poe-10 [No longer available])
Selected critical and biographical discussions.

See also the IPL list of criticism of Poe tales:
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=col-221

Librarians' Internet Index :
http://lii.org/
"A Librarian's Index to the Internet." Click on Authors and then General Resources.

The English Server at Carnegie Mellon:
(http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/ [No longer available])
Search for mentions of Edgar Allan Poe it its database of 18,000 items.<

The Gopher Directory at Wiretap: [No longer available]
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Etext

New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors:
http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/po.htm
Matches Poe's books (1827-1849) to e-text archives.

The Internet Sleuth: Isleuth: [No longer available]
http://www.isleuth.com

The Internet Sleuth: Etexts: [No longer available] http://www.isleuth.com/etexts.html /

The Internet Sleuth: Literature: [No longer available]
http://www.isleuth.com/lite.html

The Internet Sleuth: Poetry: [No longer available]
http://www.isleuth.com/poet.html

The On-Line Books Page: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Research Institute for the Humanities:
ftp://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/E-text/Poe/ghindex.html [No longer available]

Bibliomania:
http://www.bibliomania.com

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I. Web Indexes, Search Engines, Bookstores:

Multiple/parallel path search engines are listed first, followed by fee-based services.

Metacrawler:
http://www.metacrawler.com
Engine for simultaneous multiple searches, now part of Go2Net.

ProFusion:
http://profusion.ittc.ukans.edu/ [No longer available]
Configurable engine for simultaneous multiple searches.

Northernlight:
http://www.northernlight.com [No longer available]

A search in Special Collections produced abstracts of 1,120 items pertaining to Poe, many in recent professional journals.

Electric Library:
http://www.elibrary.com

[Fee-based.] Each search, which can be modified, is limited to 30 abstracts of items in newspaper and magazines (fee-based).

Sideclick: [No longer available]
http://www.sideclick.com
Drill down to desired subject and then click "sideways."

Yahoo:
http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo was at one time the best known general search engine.

To continue your search, use the links to additional search engines, conveniently located along the bottom of the Yahoo results screen:
Altavista (http://www.altavista.com/) | Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com) | Hotbot (http://www.hotbot.com) | Lycos at http://www.lycos.com | Infoseek (http:/infoseek.go.com) | Excite (http://www.excite.com) | and Dejanews (http://www.deja.com).

Books and Booksellers:

Amazon.Com:
http://www.amazon.com

A major online book and audiobook store with information on hardback, paperback, and special editions of books in print, out of stock, and out of print. The site now features "Search Inside the Book" capability.

Barnes and Noble:
www.barnesandnoble.com (Also available as www.bn.com.)
Lists some 450 currently available Poe titles plus used copies from various resellers.

Books.Com:
http://www.books.com/
Now part of Barnes and Noble.

New York Times Book Reviews and Book News:
http://www.nytimes.com/books

Electronic subscribers to the New York Times can search the archive of book reviews and book news since 1980, currently containing 22 items which discuss or mention Poe.

Bibliofind:
http://www.bibliofind.com/books

Offerings of more than five million used, old, or rare books.

Bookfinder: [Formerly www.mxbf.com]
http://www.bookfinder.com/

Alibris: [Formerly www.interloc.com]
http://www2.alibris.com/cgi-bin/texis/bookstore

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**Sites which mention this Poe Webliography:**

Early American Fiction at Virginia: Poe:
(http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/first/eap.html [No longer available])

E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore Poe-related Organizations & Links.
www.eapoe.org/links.htm

Poe's Virtual Library[Redirected to houseofusher.net]

Open Directory Project Cool Site
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/P/Poe,_Edgar_Allan/ [No longer available]

Essays and Criticisms If you are working on a paper about Edgar Allan Poe...
deathstar.comnet.ca/~forrest/essays.html[Redirected to houseofusher.net]

Poe Studies Association
www.an.psu.edu/PSA/

Bookworms Are Creepy Crawlies: The Weird Wide Web. Mining Company Guide
englishlit.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa102597.htm [No longer available]

CT109 Subject Research Guides, Webliographies and Pathfinders. [No longer available]
www.marshall.edu/isp/ct109/path2.htm

Research Guide: Edgar Allan Poe WCSU Libraries
www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/gd_poe.html [No longer available]

Edgar Allan Poe Sites in the Internet
bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/Sites.html [No longer available.]

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe, bibliography and links
www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/poe.htm [No longer here]

Edgar Allan Poe CyberTour: Edgar Allan Poe
dcls.org/reference/poe.html

American Gothic An Internet Hotlist on American Gothic Romance
www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listamericang.html [No longer available]

Edgar Allan Poe A selection from the Web.
boas5.bo.astro.it/~cappi/ [No longer available]

Autori - Home pages Scrittori, Scrittori. Pagine web dedicate a singoli autori [No longewr available]
www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/asb/testi/autori.html

Lyric online links Lyrikadressen im WWW - poetry in the web
www.lyrik.ch/links.htm - in German [No longer available]

The Poe Page: I decided Edgar Allen Poe richly deserves a place here [No longer available.] ...
www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Sands/8842/poe.html

Edgar Allan Poe - Empire:ZINE - April 1998 Biography, poems & prose listing, links
spydersempire.com/empirezine/features/april/poe5.htm [No longer available.]

The UCLA Humanities E-Compass Searchable WWW Links Database
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/e-compass/courses/title.html [No longer available.]

Version history:

Version 1.0: Created December 2, 1996
Version 1.1: Revised May 7, 1997
Version 2.1: Revision May 31, 1998
Version 3.1: Restructured, updated and links checked, January 21, May 3, May 23, 1999, Version 3.2. Feb. 7, 2002
Version 4.0: Updates and link checks, Jul. 11, 2002.
Version 5.0: Updates and link checking, July 11, 2007.
Version 6.0: Updates and link checking, July 25, 2009, June 23, 2010.
Printed version in Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism (30:1-26) .

Appendix to Poe Webliography

"Poe in Cyberspace" columns in Poe Studies Association Newsletter.

Please send additions, corrections, and suggestions to Heyward Ehrlich at ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu

STARTING sites:	A:	Good places to begin
PLAIN electronic texts:	B:	Simple ASCII, unformated, unverified texts.
HTML and SGML encoded texts:	C:	Nicer fonts, sometimes paginated, unverified texts.
EDITED texts and special collections:	D:	Digital access/preservation of historical editions.
HYPERTEXTS and class projects:	E:	Structured commentary.
SECONDARY materials:	F:	Research guides and topical discussions.
CD-ROMs and commercial e-texts:	G:	Poe offline on CD media.
LITERARY indexes and resources:	H:	General guides to resources and old books.
WEB search engines, bookstores:	I:	Universal Web guides and indexes.

APPENDIX:		Additional files:

Foreign sites and foreign languages:	J:	Interest in Poe abroad.
Digital media and performances:	K:	Multimedia, readings, shows.
Historical sites, exhibits, associations:	L:	Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond.
Parodies and miscellanies:	M:	Humor, inventions, oddities.
Table I: A Poe census:	1:	Poe e-texts at major online archives.

Heyward Ehrlich A Poe Webliography: Edgar Allan Poe on the Internet