What did you hear/see/read first?

How did you get hooked?

My father used to read me Poe's novels when I was very young... I was enchanted by the tone of his voice creating mistery and suspance... I never left Poe's works... I can say that he's not my favourite writer... he is a part of me...

If I have to rimind the first novel that hooked me stronger I can say it was "The Tell-Tale Heart"... when I was very very young, before sleeping, I used to love hearing about the door slowly opening... my heart was a train in that situation... but I was not frightened... I was excited... that were the moments I felt alive... (even "The Oval Portrait" was one of my favourites)

I think it was The Gold Bug. Also it had one of my very first mystery solving character in it.
By the way Leonardi's father stole my dream with my son:)

I was born a Poe so I guess I had no way of avoiding him, i definately have the same interests in the macabre and i am an artist and sometime poet, no idea about geneology, he was adopted and sired no offspring, I just materialised!

mi padre me lo recomendo. el primer cuento que lei fue manuscrito hallado en una botella

I first read the Raven, many years ago. Though I had seen it in The Simpsons before.

My middle-school English teacher played a tape recording of "The Raven". I still remember hearing the voice that kept saying "Nevermore, Nevermore".

my first (and probably still my favorite) was The Telltale Heart--very creepy! The Pit & The Pendulum was cool too

tenia el libro en casa, y por curiosidad intelectual lo lei y me fasino!!!! el piromero fue El Gato Negro, y demas.

My first approach at Poe was in my first year in secondary school and through the perseverance of my Spanish teacher-whom I will always be thanking for- via the Cortazar's translation of his classic short stories, the first of which I read . was "The Mask of the Red Death". I got so impressed and marvelled about it that on the one hand that same night I couldn't sleep without reading the rest of the book it was included in, and, on the other, many years after that, the first thing I bought with my first salary was the Complete and Unabridged Works of this master.

I read "The Fall of the house of Usher" in 11 grade in high school and "The Raven" that's how I fell in love with my dear Poe. :)

When I was like 13 or something I read Masque Of The Read Death in spanish, which I quite liked but not enough to pursue the author. Fast forward to when I was 16, I read Lenore, loved it, saw it was by the same guy that had written Mask, re-read that one in english, and then read everything else.

I was about twelve years old or so when I fist read "Alone".
I loved it, so I looked further into Edgar Allan Poe. He has been my favorite author ever since. My personal favorite is "Al-Aaraaf", and it has been for years now.

I believe "The Raven" thats the first I remember and I was hooked :)

I had read various stories of his throughout my childhood, but my real love and appreciation for Poe came when I was in highschool and I fell in love with his poetry, specifically "A Dream Within A Dream", which I memorized in a couple hours and can still recite that on command, probably in my sleep as well, to this day. After that I had to read more and the more I read, the more I loved.

I bought a collection of horror stories by chance, and one of them is Poe's "The Black Cat."

I first read the Raven, followed by the Pit and the pendulum...remained enchanted...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Pit & The Pendulum" in elementary school- I was about 9...never been the same.

The Cask of Amontillado followed by The Raven and The Pit & The Pendulum in elementary school.

Rather peculiar but it was "Annabel Lee" in my case. Everything else followed later and for quite a while I was actually living on it :)

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.