Contents
Introduction
Barbara Cantalupo
Chapter 1: Pathologizing Modernity: The Grotesque in Poe and Rampo
Seth Jacobowitz
Chapter 2: Visionary Media in Edgar Allan Poe and Edogawa Rampo William O. Gardner
Chapter 3: Poe's Shadow in Japan: Alternative Works and Failed Escapes
in Edogawa Rampo's Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Mark Silver
Chapter 4: Interview with Kasai Kiyoshi
Barbara Cantalupo
Chapter 5: Lu Xun and Poe: Reading the Psyche
Diane Smith
Chapter 6: "Breaking the Law of Silence": Rereading Poe's "The Man
of the Crowd" and Gogol's "The Portrait"
Alexandra Urakova
Chapter 7: "What has occurred that has (never) occurred before":
A Case Study of the First Portuguese Detective Novel
Isabel Oliveira Martins
Chapter 8: "Around Reason Feeling"-Poe's Impact on Fernando
Pessoa's Modernist Proposal
Margarida Vale de Gato
Chapter 9: Poe in Place
Charles Cantalupo
Chapter 10: Ligeia-Not Me! Three Women Writers Respond to Poe
Daniel Hoffman
Chapter 11: Gothic Windows in Poe and Faulkner: "The Fall of the House
of Usher" and Absalom! Absalom!
Shoko Itoh
Chapter 12: Poe's Progeny: Varieties of Detection in Key American Literary Texts, 1841-1861 John Gruesser

The essays in this collection were originally presented as talks at the Poe Studies Association's Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: The Bicentennial in October 2009. All the essays in this volume deal with Poe's influence on authors from the United States and abroad; in addition, the collection also includes two examples of primary texts by contemporary authors whose work is directly related to Poe's work or life: an interview with Japanese detective novelist Kiyoshi Kasai and poems by Charles Cantalupo.
This volume includes interpretative essays on international authors whose work reflects back on Poe's work: Edogawa Rampo from Japan; Lu Xun from China; Fernando Pessoa, Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão from Portugal; Angela Carter from England; and Nikolai Gogol from Russia. The essays in this collection complement and extend a project begun by Lois Vines' Poe Abroad (University of Iowa Press, 1999) and take a wider perspective on Poe's influence with essays on Poe's impact on American authors William Faulkner, Mary Oliver, Joyce Carol Oates, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Harriet Jacobs.