José R. Ibáñez is Assistant Professor at the University of Almeria, Spain. He has published articles and book chapters on Comparative literature and American literature, with an emphasis on Edgar Allan Poe and the short fiction of Southern United States authors and hyphenated American authors, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Ha Jin.

1 Introduction: Re-assessing Poe's 'Adolescent' Art - JOSÉ R. IBÁÑEZ IBÁÑEZ & SANTIAGO RODRÍGUEZ GUERRERO-STRACHAN.- Poe Classical and (Post)modern readings.- 2 Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Nostalgia and Poe's Readership - JEFFREY SAVOYE.- 3 Fear, Unbelief, and the Ascendancy of Edgar Poe - J. GERALD KENNEDY.- 4 "The Glory that was Greece and the Grandeur that was Rome": Edgar Allan Poe and the Classical World - HARRY LEE POE.- 5 Poe's Arrival in Europe: The Case of Greece - DIMITRIOS TSOKANOS.- 6 The Achievement of Edgar Allan Poe: Poe among the Modernists - VIORICA PATEA.- 7 Poeta Ludens: Poe's Twisted Modern Times - STEPHANIE SOMMERFELD.- Poe's Young Adult Readership.- 8 Reading, Understanding, and Praising Poe's Illustrated Oeuvre: From Childhood to Old Age - FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ MORENO & MARGARITA RIGAL-ARAGÓN.- 9 Poe's 'The Gold-Bug.' Reading, and Race - JOHN GRUESSER.- 10 Poe's "Berenice" in Popular Culture: Contemporary (Audio)visual representations in Spain - Mª ISABEL JIMÉNEZ-GONZÁLEZ & ANA GONZÁLEZ-RIVAS FERNÁNDEZ.- 11 "The Masque of the Red Death" in literature and cinema: Poe's original story and Corman's film adaptation - EUSEBIO V. LLÀCER LLORCA.- Poe's Adult Readership and his Legacy.- 12 Beyond Baudelaire's Views of Poe: Carlos Fernández Cuenca and Josep Farrán i Mayoral. Literary Criticism and Aesthetic Reception in 1930s and 1940s Spain - JOSÉ MANUEL CORREOSO-RÓDENAS & ALEJANDRO JAQUERO-ESPARCIA.- 13 "Darkness there and nothing more:" Edgar A. Poe and the Popular Culture of Necrolatry and Tanatography - EULALIA PIÑERO GIL.- 14 Echoes of Poe in the Jazz Age: The Haunting of F. Scott Fitzgerald - BONNIE MCMULLEN.- 15 Growing up in Poe's Shadow: Intertextuality, Jungian Projections, and Creativity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and Stephen King's "The Monkey" - MARTA MIQUEL-BALDELLOU.- 16 Poe's Poetics and Eliot's Poetry. A Denial of Influence? - SLAWOMIR STUDNIARZ.- 17 "The Man of the Crowd" and His Followers: Poe,Rampo and Sakate - TAKAYUKI TATSUMI.