Every room had a scene from a Poe story.
Incidentally, this is one of the few Poe stories whose narrator is named.
Dupin, an amateur crime-solver residing in Paris appeared in three Poe stories.
The film also adapted parts of another Poe story, "Hop-Frog", involving the court jester and his wife.
For example, the title of the painting The Domain of Arnheim (1938) was taken from the Poe short story of the same name.
Probably, he'd been born with that disposition ... an "insufferable gloom," wasn't that the phrase in the Poe story?
These evoke the sense of a Seine bridge or the gloomy romance of a Poe story.
It was a Poe story set on Chambers Street.
The screenplay was actually a series of very frightening, dramatic sequences inspired by several of the Poe stories.
The cipher in the Poe story is encrusted with several deception measures, but this is more a literary device than anything significant cryptographically.
