On Edgar Allan Poe

  Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No
  doubt you think that you are complimenting me in
  comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in
  my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That
  trick of his of breaking in on his friends’ thoughts
  with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour’s
  silence is really very showy and superficial. He had
  some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by
  no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to
  imagine.

"In the last year of his life he wrote a prose poem, Eureka ... Eureka describes the origins of the universe in a single particle, from which “radiated” the atoms of which all matter is made. Minute dissimilarities of size and distribution among these atoms meant that the effects of gravity caused them to accumulate as matter, forming the physical universe. ... This by itself would be a startling anticipation of modern cosmology,"

and / but he also drew conclusions:

"for example that space and “duration” are one thing, that there might be stars that emit no light, that there is a repulsive force that in some degree counteracts the force of gravity, that there could be any number of universes with different laws simultaneous with ours, that our universe might collapse to its original state and another universe erupt from the particle it would have become, that our present universe may be one in a series."

I'm a fan and didn't know this.

I always wondered why there aren't more comic books about him given his stories, his melancholic looks, sad death, etc. He's a ready-made comic book hero!