Here's just a few of the references to Poe in the Netflix series - maybe you spied more? Nevermore Academy QUOTH IT. In this enviably stunning Gothic setting, Burton finds ways to use the author's Gothic associations to Wednesday-ify the element of a typical teen series, from the school dance (The Rave’N) to the annual canoe race (the Poe Cup). And while Wednesday more often quotes her beloved Agatha Christie and nemesis Mary Shelley during the series, Burton throws a cask of amontillado at his series in order to Poe it up. Like Poe's tales, Wednesday hinges on mysteries, monsters, and mayhem - with an ending twist worthy of the Gothic writer. No wonder he became a drug-addled madman.' 'Clearly Nevermore's most famous alumni picked that up here. ' Edgar Allan Poe said, 'Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see,'' says Wednesday in episode 2. Poe is the most notorious student to attend the fictional Nevermore Academy attended by our morbid protagonist, Wednesday Addams. The 19th century American writer and poet famous for his macabre tales of mystery, grief, insanity, murder, ghosts, and revenge like The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher, plays a major thematic role in Tim Burton's characteristically spooky teen series. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious episode of Netflix's Wednesday that this show has a veritable shitload of references to Edgar Allan Poe.

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe