directed by Antonio Margheriti; Poe is played by Klaus Kinski. The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974); Poe is portrayed by Robert Walker Jr. Tale of a Vampire (1992) horror film directed by Shimako Sato; Kenneth Cranham plays "Edgar", Suzanna Hamilton is Virginia and her reincarnation Anne, and Julian Sands is Alex, the vampire who completes the triangle. Monkeybone (2001), saw Edgar Allan Poe IV return as his namesake again. The 2003 film Descendant features two distant relations of Poe, and an appearance of the ghost of Poe himself. The independent film The Death of Poe (2006) focuses on the author's last days. Poe is portrayed as being forgetful, possibly as a result of an illness, and becomes a victim of cooping. Twixt (2011) a horror film directed by Francis Ford Coppola features Ben Chaplin as Edgar Allan Poe. In the fictional comedy film, Lives and Deaths of the Poets (2011) Poe is portrayed by actor, Greg Coale. The Raven (2012) stars John Cusack as Poe, in a story about the last days of Poe's life in which he tries to track down a serial killer whose murders parallel deaths in Poe's stories. The Pale Blue Eye (2022) is a film adaptation of the 2003 novel by Louis Bayard featuring Harry Melling as Poe. Theatre The Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a play by playwright P. Shane Mitchell. In early 2007, NYC composer Phill Greenland and book writer/actor Ethan Angelica announced a new Poe stage musical titled Edgar, which uses only Poe's prose and letters as text, and Poe's poems as lyrics. Actor John Astin, who performed as Gomez in The Addams Family television series, is an ardent admirer of Poe, whom he resembles, and in recent years has starred in a one-man play based on Poe's life and works, Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight. In the mid-1990s, The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival presented Edgar – The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Jack Yuken at five south Florida venues. Kevin Crawford was Poe. R.A. Smith and Heidi Harris co-starred. Kermit Christman directed. Fall of the House, a play by Robert Ford, premiered April 9, 2010 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The play features vignettes from the last week of Poe's life and from the last days of his mother's life, both of which intersect with a modern-day plotline. The 2008 Japanese/Australian Rock Musical Once Upon a