DETECTIVE STORIES FROM THE AUTHOR WHO INVENTED THE GENRE -- EDGAR ALLAN POE.
"It is because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's stories so much that I began to make suspense films." ALFRED HITCHCOCK
"Where was the detective story until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?" ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
"Mr. Poe has that indescribable something that men have agreed to call genius." JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"Poe constantly and inevitably produced magic..." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW