The strange life – and even stranger death – of Edgar Allan Poe

• For a man who has been posthumously damned as a deranged, drug-taking madman, Edgar Allan Poe might have enjoyed the controversy that arose during the production of Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix adaptation of his legendary short story, The Fall of the House of Usher. It was thrown into difficulties because Frank Langella, originally cast in a leading role as the Usher patriarch Roderick in the present-day retelling, was fired from the show because of “unacceptable conduct”; this was said to involv