The most complete and authoritative collection of Poe's works is the one put out by the Library of America. Their Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales was published in 1984.

Because Poe's life was so fascinating and so telling about his work, students often are interested in reading more about him. The 1992 biography Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy by Jeffrey Myers tells as much as anybody knows about Poe today.

Shirley Jackson is an American author best known for her short story "The Lottery," but many critics believe that her best work was The Haunting, a novel that, like this poem, explores the line between the imagination and the supernatural.