Dennis asked Alan Moore:

What is your favorite Edgar Allen Poe story, and what effect has it had on your writing and your personality towards the macabre?

Alan Moore My favourite Poe story, at least at this moment, would probably be The Telltale Heart, one of the first stories by ‘pauvre Eddie’ that I ever read. I wouldn’t say that his work has been a major influence on my own, save for indirectly through writers like Lovecraft, but I would say that Poe taught me to appreciate the unique register of feverish delirium and encroaching insanity that is curdling and creeping in all of his greatest and most memorable stories.

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