Edogawa Rampo , a famous Japanese writer of mystery and crime stories, named himself after Edgar Allen Poe (pronounce Edogawa Rampo a few times and you'll hear

Edogawa Rampo , a famous Japanese writer of mystery and crime stories, named himself after Edgar Allen Poe (pronounce Edogawa Rampo a few times and you'll hear it) He wrote quite a few essays on Poe and Poe's reviews, here's one on how Poe essentially predicted the twist ending of Dickens' Barnaby Rudge while it was still being serialised and spoiled it in his reviews, and how that book may have been a major inspiration for Poe's Raven: https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TCpeDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT113&lpg=PT113&dq=edogawa+rampo+poe+raven&source=bl&ots=Wp6PItHCeY&sig=7RkgXYGQhyXxs_xtLY9qTw0nfaA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin9f3EwonXAhUCU7wKHR7fDfwQ6AEITzAL#v=onepage&q=edogawa%20rampo%20poe%20raven&f=false https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TCpeDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT113&l...