Botting, Fred. Gothic, New York: Routledge, 1996.

A clear and accessible introduction to Gothic images and texts in their historical and cultural contexts. Includes a chapter on twentieth-century Gothic books and films.

Buranelli, Vincent. Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Twayne, 1977.

An overview of the life and work for the general reader, which includes a chronology, a helpful index, and a no-longer-current bibliography of primary and secondary sources

Carlson, Eric W., ed. The Recognition of Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Criticism Since 1829, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966.

A collection of reviews and commentaries, especially interesting for the remarks by those Poe influenced, including the French poet Charles Baudelaire, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevski, and British and American writers including Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and T.S. Eliot.

Howarth, William L., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Poe's Tales: A Collection of Critical Essays, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

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