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Generate character names with the melancholy, Old-World cadence of Edgar Allan Poe: real names from his tales and poems (Lenore, Roderick Usher, Montresor, Ligeia, Annabel Lee, C. Auguste Dupin) plus new names built the way Poe built his, from Latinate first names, antique surnames and mournful vowel sounds. For gothic fiction, dark academia, horror games and Poe-themed events.

About Poe names

Edgar Allan Poe chose names for their sound before their sense. He wanted the long, dying vowels of Lenore, Ulalume and Eulalie, the sonorous "o" and "r" he described in "The Philosophy of Composition" as the most melancholy sounds in English, and surnames with an air of decayed nobility: Usher, Montresor, Metzengerstein, Valdemar. Many of his heroines carry rare Latin or Greek names (Ligeia from a siren, Berenice, Morella, Eleonora), while his narrators are often nameless or hide behind a bare initial, which makes the few named men (Roderick, Fortunato, Prospero, C. Auguste Dupin) stand out sharply.

To write a name in Poe's manner, pair a Latinate or archaic first name with a short, dark-toned English or continental surname: Ambrose Vane, Lysander Fane, Cordelia Mourne, Isidore Quill. Avoid anything cheerful or modern; the whole effect depends on the reader hearing an old family, an old house, and probably an old curse. Poe loved place and thing names that behave like character names, from the Plutonian shore and the dank tarn of Auber to the cask of Amontillado, with several included for taverns, ships, estates and pets.

The list combines Poe's named figures, the women of his life (Virginia Clemm, Frances Allan, Sarah Helen Whitman) and new names in his manner: titled nobles, coined single names, classical names and comic names.

How to choose Poe names

  • Read the name aloud; if it doesn't have a long "o", "or" or "ee" sound somewhere (Lenore, Morella, Ligeia), it probably won't sound like Poe.
  • Give doomed aristocrats a surname that is also a house: the House of Usher, the House of Vane, the House of Marchmont. Poe's families and their mansions share one fate.
  • Leave your narrator unnamed and let the other characters be lavishly named; the contrast is one of Poe's most imitated tricks.
  • For a modern gothic or dark-academia setting, keep the first names (Roderick, Ligeia, Ambrose, Seraphina) and swap the surnames for plausible present-day ones so the effect is subtle rather than costume.
  • Words like Nevermore, Nepenthe, Amontillado and Eldorado make excellent names for boats, bars, bookshops, cats and ravens.

Frequently asked questions

What are the most famous names in Edgar Allan Poe's works?

Lenore ("The Raven"), Annabel Lee, Roderick and Madeline Usher, Montresor and Fortunato ("The Cask of Amontillado"), Ligeia, Morella, Berenice, Prince Prospero ("The Masque of the Red Death"), C. Auguste Dupin (the first fictional detective) and William Wilson.

How did Poe come up with names like Ulalume and Ligeia?

Poe borrowed from classical sources (Ligeia was a siren, Berenice an Egyptian queen) and coined others purely for sound; Ulalume was probably built from Latin ululare, "to wail", to echo the poem's grief.

Are these names good for a gothic novel or dark academia character?

Yes. The first-and-surname combinations were composed to work as full character names for gothic, Victorian and dark-academia fiction, and the single names from Poe's poems suit pets, ships, taverns and titles.

Can I use names from Poe's stories in my own writing?

Poe's works are in the public domain, so names like Lenore, Usher and Montresor are free to use. The newly composed names here are also free for commercial projects.

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A: 105 names

  • Abbe Fulgence Morel
  • Abbess Radegund
  • Abbey of Saint Evremond
  • Abbey of the Seven Lamps
  • Abel-Phittim
  • Abigail Sewall Lothrop
  • Abner Tayloe Cabell
  • Absalom Thrale
  • Ada Wychwood
  • Adelaide Fenwick
  • Adele Lavigne
  • Adelheid Winterstein
  • Adelina Whitlock
  • Adolphe Le Bon
  • Adolphus Simpson
  • Adrien Bellerose
  • Agatha Mordaunt
  • Agathos
  • Agnes Dacre
  • Aidenn
  • Al Aaraaf
  • Alaric Mourne
  • Alban Hexham
  • Albertine Guerin
  • Alberto Montani
  • Albrecht von Krahenberg
  • Alcestis
  • Alcide Vasseur
  • Alderman Drowsibones
  • Aldous Fenwick
  • Alessandra
  • Alessandro Vittorini
  • Alexander Wormley
  • Alexandre Etienne
  • Alfonzo Garcio
  • Algernon Saltmarsh
  • Alistair Winterbourne
  • Allamistakeo
  • Allan Merriweather
  • Allegra Foscari
  • Alma Penhallow
  • Almira Thayer Dwight
  • Aloysia Brome
  • Aloysius Tarne
  • Althea Ravenscroft
  • Aluvane
  • Amabel Sterne
  • Amadeus Skelton
  • Amalthea Scrope
  • Amaranth Devereux
  • Ambrose Lestrange
  • Ambrose Vane

A, continued

  • Ambrosia Vaux
  • Ambrosio Halloran
  • Amelia Egremont
  • Amias Yarrow
  • Amontillado
  • Amos Folger Swain
  • Ana-Pest
  • Anastasia Knell
  • Anatole Rathbone
  • Andrew Thornton
  • Angel of the Odd
  • Angelica Bleake
  • Angeline Ravenel
  • Angelo
  • Annabel Lee
  • Annabelle Marr
  • Annie Richmond
  • Ansel Marchbank
  • Anselm Rooke
  • Anselmo Corvi
  • Anthea Calder
  • Antiochus Epiphanes
  • Antonia Carrow
  • Apolline Marchand
  • Arabella Wormwood
  • Araminta Daunt
  • Archibald Northmoor
  • Ariadne Gaunt
  • Ariel
  • Aristide Lachance
  • Arnheim
  • Arrigo Barbarigo
  • Arsinoe
  • Artemisia Kyrle
  • Arthur Gordon Pym
  • Asa Bunker Pinkham
  • Ashtophet
  • Aspasia Holt
  • Astarte
  • Auber
  • Auberon Slade
  • Aubrey Midwinter
  • Augusta Holloway
  • Auguste Deveraux
  • Augustin Delacroix
  • Augustus Barnard
  • Augustus Hearne
  • Augustus Scratchaway
  • Aurelia Bell
  • Aurelian Voss
  • Aurelius Blythe
  • Aveline Darke
  • Azalea Mandeville

B: 50 names

  • Baldassare Orsini
  • Baldazzar
  • Balm in Gilead
  • Balthazar Crewe
  • Bardolph Crowhurst
  • Barnabas Kell
  • Barnabas Shuttleworthy
  • Barnaby Ashfall
  • Barnaby Quillfeather
  • Baron Blunderby
  • Baron Malvoisin
  • Baron R. von K.
  • Baron Tassilo von Geisterwald
  • Baroness Ilona Varga
  • Barque Melancholia
  • Bartholomew Crane
  • Bartolomeo Capello
  • Barzillai Saltonstall
  • Basil Devereux
  • Bastien Grandier
  • Bathsheba Cray
  • Beata Harcourt
  • Beatrix Corbeau
  • Bede Welles
  • Bedloe
  • Belinda Sallow
  • Bellamira Penrose
  • Benedict Harrow
  • Benito
  • Berenice
  • Berenice Vale
  • Berlifitzing
  • Bertram Fell
  • Bettina Morosini
  • Bianca Tarrant
  • Blaise Latimer
  • Blanche Harrow
  • Blandine Carpentier
  • Bleak December
  • Blood-Red Moon
  • Bluddennuff
  • Bon-Bon
  • Bouffon Le Grand
  • Bransby
  • Briseis
  • Brother Fidelis
  • Brunhilde Kaltenborn
  • Bruno von Eulenhorst
  • Bust of Pallas
  • Buzi-Ben-Levi

C: 81 names

  • C. Auguste Dupin
  • Cadmus Wight
  • Caius Dunmore
  • Caleb Hussey Gardner
  • Calliope Darrow
  • Calvert Blackthorn
  • Camilla Blackmoor
  • Camille L'Espanaye
  • Captain Block
  • Captain Guy
  • Captain Hardy
  • Captain Jotham Macy
  • Captain Lubberly Hawse
  • Captain Pratt
  • Captain Smitherton
  • Carlotta Vyner
  • Casimir Vaux
  • Caspian Vesper
  • Cassandra Grieve
  • Cassius Blackwell
  • Castiglione
  • Castle Hollenthal
  • Castle of the Black Poplars
  • Catacombs of Saint Remy
  • Catterina
  • Cecily Halloran
  • Cedric Malory
  • Celestine Vell
  • Charis Walsingham
  • Charity Derby Osborn
  • Charley Goodfellow
  • Charmion
  • Chateau de Sombreval
  • Chateau Mornay
  • Chevalier Armand de Sauveterre
  • Chevalier Renaud
  • Christabel Ashworth
  • City in the Sea
  • Clarimond Ashcombe
  • Clarissa Wyck

C, continued

  • Claudia Morrow
  • Claudius Hemlock
  • Clemence Gaudet
  • Clement Sorrow
  • Clementine Graves
  • Clock of Ebony
  • Cloister of Saint Odile
  • Clotilde Arden
  • Clovis Montfort
  • Clytie
  • Cocytus
  • Columbine Halsey
  • Conqueror Worm
  • Conrad Hallow
  • Constance Larke
  • Coralie Lemaire
  • Corbin Sexton
  • Cordelia Mourne
  • Corentin Sauvage
  • Corisande Pale
  • Cornelia Hyde
  • Cornelius Nightshade
  • Cornelius Ravel
  • Cornelius Wyatt
  • Corvelune
  • Corvin Blake
  • Cosimo Gradenigo
  • Cosmo Duquesne
  • Costanza Dandolo
  • Counsellor Longwind
  • Count Evaristo Malvezzi
  • Count Orsino Bellacqua
  • Countess Theresia von Altenmoor
  • Countess Thessaly Marche
  • Cressida Winterbourne
  • Crispin Yew
  • Crypt of the Nine Bells
  • Cuthbert Mortlake
  • Cynthia Tarne
  • Cyprian Marlowe
  • Cyril Ormond

D: 48 names

  • D'Elormie
  • Damaris Thorpe
  • Dame Ermintrude Halse
  • Damian Sallow
  • Danae
  • Daphne Lockwood
  • Darius Umber
  • David Poe
  • De Grave
  • Deianira
  • Deliverance Paddock Snell
  • Delphine Crane
  • Demetrius Lathom
  • Desdemona Pelham
  • Desmond Grimshaw
  • Di Broglio
  • Dietrich Eisengrund
  • Dim Lake of Auber
  • Dinarzade
  • Dirk Peters
  • Doctor F. of Leyden
  • Doctor Hesketh Vaudrey
  • Doctor Maxence Marais
  • Doctor Neverwake
  • Doctor Ponnonner
  • Doctor Tarr
  • Dolores Northmoor
  • Dolorine
  • Dolorous Keep
  • Domenica Hearne
  • Don Fadrique Olmedo
  • Donna Imelda Contarini
  • Dorian Kestrel
  • Dorothea Carew
  • Dowager Lady Pevensey
  • Dr. Moneypenny
  • Dream Within a Dream
  • Dream-Land
  • Drusilla Crewe
  • Duc de L'Omelette
  • Duchess of Bless-my-Soul
  • Duchess Yolande de Montrevel
  • Duke Amaury of Montferrand
  • Duke Pest-Iferous
  • Duke Pest-Ilential
  • Duke Tem-Pest
  • Dunstan Lych
  • Dupin Montresor

E: 72 names

  • E. Lucius Hardcastle
  • Earl of Aldersey
  • Ebenezer Galt Mayo
  • Ebony Bird
  • Eckbert von Hohenmark
  • Edgar A. Perry
  • Edgar Lorne
  • Edgar Ravensworth
  • Editor Clipandpaste
  • Edmund Ravenscroft
  • Edward Stapleton
  • Egaeus
  • Eglantine Fell
  • Eidolene
  • Eidolon
  • Eiros
  • Eldorado
  • Eldred Hargrave
  • Eleanora Vesper
  • Eleazar Noyes
  • Electra Marston
  • Elenore Ashby
  • Eleonora
  • Elfrida Nairn
  • Elias Thistlewood
  • Elihu Paddock Worth
  • Eliphalet Crowninshield
  • Eliza Arnold
  • Ellery Wake
  • Ellison
  • Ellumie
  • Elmira Royster
  • Eloise Malory
  • Eloreen
  • Elspeth Dusk
  • Elvira Standish

E, continued

  • Emeric Dusk
  • Emile Beaulieu
  • Emmeline Sorrow
  • Emrys Dorne
  • Endora Hallow
  • Enoch Barrow
  • Ephraim Stark
  • Erasmus Whitlock
  • Ermengarde
  • Ernest Valdemar
  • Ernestine Duquesne
  • Esmeralda Reeve
  • Estelle Vespertine
  • Etheldreda Paget
  • Ethelinda Sayer
  • Ethelred
  • Ettore Bentivoglio
  • Eudora Yew
  • Eugenia Ormond
  • Eugenie Lalande
  • Eugenie Salsafette
  • Eulalia Thorne
  • Eulalie
  • Euphemia Grimshaw
  • Euphrasia Vere
  • Euphrosyne
  • Eurydice Kestrel
  • Eustace Carfax
  • Evadne Thistlewood
  • Evander Loveday
  • Evangeline Rooke
  • Evenore
  • Everard Lisle
  • Experience Bunker Luce
  • Ezekiel Thorncastle
  • Ezra Coleman Chase

F: 22 names

  • Fabian Mordaunt
  • Fabrice Noiret
  • Fabrizio Querini
  • Fanny Osgood
  • Faustine Wake
  • Felicia Amory
  • Felicien Duclos
  • Fenella Dorne
  • Ferdinand Alcott
  • Fidelia Gathorne
  • Fiorenza Malatesta
  • Fitzroy Pendle
  • Flavia Stark
  • Florentine Loveday
  • Florian Trevelyan
  • Fortunato
  • Frances Allan
  • Frederick Metzengerstein
  • Free and Easy
  • Friar Onofrio
  • Fulke Wardlaw
  • Fum-Fudge

G: 34 names

  • G. Fortunato Salviati
  • Gabriel Mere
  • Galen Quarrie
  • Garden of Asphodels
  • Garrick Thurlow
  • Gaspard Lorrimer
  • Gautier Saint-Clair
  • General Lasalle
  • Genevieve Marchmont
  • Georgiana Trevelyan
  • Germain Verdier
  • Gervase Ives
  • Ghoul-Haunted Woodland
  • Gideon Ashcombe
  • Gilbert Redgrave
  • Gilead
  • Giles Hollow
  • Ginevra Cornaro
  • Girolamo Vendramin
  • Gisela von Nebelheim
  • Glendinning
  • Godfrey Wormwood
  • Gold-Bug
  • Goosetherumfoodle
  • Gottfried von Nachtwald
  • Grampus
  • Gregory Sombre
  • Grettel Pfaall
  • Griselda Poole
  • Gualtiero Altieri
  • Guillaume Vautrin
  • Guinevere Coldwater
  • Guy De Vere
  • Gwendolen Ives

H: 41 names

  • H. Auguste Valmont
  • Hadrian Bleake
  • Halcyone
  • Hamlin Fowle
  • Hannah Gardner Mayhew
  • Hans Pfaall
  • Hartley Quince
  • Hartman Rogers
  • Hartmut von Grauenstein
  • Haunted Palace
  • Hecuba Massey
  • Hedwig von Rabenau
  • Heinrich von Wolfsbruck
  • Helen
  • Helena Wraye
  • Helseggen
  • Henri Duval
  • Henri Le Rennet
  • Hepzibah Worth Tilden
  • Hermann
  • Hermione Redgrave
  • Hesione
  • Hester Sedge
  • Hezekiah Snufflebury
  • Hieronymus Falk
  • Hilary Sedge
  • Hildegarde Trent
  • Hippolyta Seward
  • Hippolyte Fauchard
  • Honora Wilde
  • Hop-Frog
  • Horatio Wynter
  • Hortensia Payne
  • Hosea Winthrop Thayer
  • House of Marchmont
  • House of Usher
  • House of Vane
  • Hugh Tarpaulin
  • Hugo Wilde
  • Hum-Drum
  • Hyacinth Selwyn

I: 30 names

  • Ianthe
  • Ianthe Marlowe
  • Ianthe Wynter
  • Ichabod Varley
  • Idonea Roth
  • Ignatius Beauvoir
  • Ignatius Hollis
  • Ildemere
  • Imogen Shale
  • Imp of the Perverse
  • In Pace Requiescat
  • Inigo Payne
  • Iole
  • Ione Wolfe
  • Iphigenia Quaile
  • Irene
  • Irmgard von Trauerbach
  • Isabeau Underhill
  • Isadora Lorne
  • Isaiah Endicott Sewall
  • Isaura Tremayne
  • Isidore Muset
  • Isidore Quill
  • Island of the Fay
  • Ismelore
  • Ismene Halloway
  • Isolde Ashgrove
  • Isotta Falier
  • Israfel
  • Ivo Delamere

J: 30 names

  • J. Peregrine Aldous
  • Jacinta
  • Jack Marlinspike
  • Jacobina Herrick
  • Jacopo Trevisan
  • Jacques St. Eustache
  • Jane Guy
  • Jared Pickering Derby
  • Jasper Selwyn
  • Jedediah Ambler Byrd
  • Jeremiah Weald
  • Jerome Carrow
  • Jessamine Bram
  • Jocelyn Ashmead
  • John A. B. C. Smith
  • John Allan
  • Jolly Tar
  • Jonas Culpeper
  • Josephine Whitmore
  • Josiah Roth
  • Jules Desoulieres
  • Jules Mignaud
  • Julian Vestry
  • Juliana Verlaine
  • Julien Bossuet
  • Julius Rodman
  • Julius Vespertine
  • Jupiter
  • Justine Ware
  • Justus Bracken

K: 9 names

  • Kaspar Knell
  • Kate
  • Kempelen
  • Kester Shale
  • Keziah Folger Ray
  • King Pest
  • Kingdom by the Sea
  • Klock-Klock
  • Kunigunde von Schwarzenfels

L: 64 names

  • L. Octave Marivaux
  • Lackobreath
  • Lady Avice Carnforth
  • Lady Elfleda of Corrimore
  • Lady Mary
  • Lady Rohesia of Greywether Court
  • Laetitia Teague
  • Lake of Lost Echoes
  • Lalage
  • Lambert Wolfe
  • Lamoriel
  • Landor
  • Laodice
  • Launcelot Canning
  • Laurence Tolland
  • Lavinia Hollis
  • Lazare Dufresne
  • Lazarus Holloway
  • Leander Quaile
  • Legrand
  • Lemuel Underhill
  • Lenora Vane
  • Lenore
  • Lenore Metzengerstein
  • Leocadia Glass
  • Leonce Villiers
  • Leontes Locke
  • Leopold Sable
  • Lethe
  • Lethenore
  • Letitia Pryor
  • Leucosia

L, continued

  • Leucothea
  • Leuthold von Sturmfeld
  • Levi Prescott Appleton
  • Ligeia
  • Ligeia Berlifitzing
  • Ligeia Vestry
  • Lilias Sloane
  • Linnet Haight
  • Linus Gloam
  • Lionel Tremayne
  • Lofoden
  • Lorcan Bram
  • Lord Rainald of Corvenna
  • Lorelei Vail
  • Lorenzo Searle
  • Lothar Grabenhorst
  • Lovisa Prescott Alden
  • Lucan Whitmore
  • Lucasta Fairleigh
  • Luchesi
  • Lucian Ashby
  • Lucian Faulconbridge
  • Lucilla Mercer
  • Lucinda Strange
  • Lucius Greymoor
  • Lucius Wend
  • Lucretia Westmorland
  • Ludmilla von Tiefensee
  • Ludovic Marr
  • Lunamore
  • Lydia Nightingale
  • Lysander Fane

M: 78 names

  • M. Isidore Lachaise
  • Mad Trist
  • Madame Deluc
  • Madame Honorine Vaillant
  • Madame Joyeuse
  • Madame L'Espanaye
  • Madame Sidonie Vauquelin
  • Madame Tut-Tut
  • Madeline Lisle
  • Madeline Usher
  • Mademoiselle Aurore Lenoir
  • Mademoiselle Laplace
  • Maelstrom
  • Magdalena Holme
  • Magnus Verlaine
  • Malachi Ware
  • Malvina Gale
  • Man of the Crowd
  • Marcella Scarlett
  • Marchesa Aphrodite
  • Marchesa Fiammetta Loredan
  • Margrave Eberhard
  • Marguerite Wend
  • Maria Clemm
  • Marian Wyatt
  • Mariana Tolliver
  • Marie Louise Shew
  • Marie Roget
  • Marius Teague
  • Marquis de Brisemont
  • Mathilde Denning
  • Matthias Colde
  • Maud Illingworth
  • Maurice Sackville
  • Maximilian Corbeau
  • Mechthild Dornfeld
  • Medoc
  • Mehitabel Foxe
  • Melanore

M, continued

  • Melisande Kane
  • Melusine Yorke
  • Memnon
  • Mentoni
  • Mercy Gilchrist
  • Meredith Snow
  • Merritt Glass
  • Metzengerstein
  • Midnight Dreary
  • Minerva Sibley
  • Minister D.
  • Mirabel Vance
  • Miranda Wray
  • Misquash
  • Mistress Dorcas Pennyfold
  • Monck Mason
  • Monos
  • Monsieur Achille Renard
  • Monsieur Beauvais
  • Monsieur Boullard
  • Monsieur De Kock
  • Monsieur Gratien Laroque
  • Monsieur Le Blanc
  • Monsieur Maillard
  • Montague Pryor
  • Montresor
  • Mordecai Swann
  • Morella
  • Morella Sable
  • Morilune
  • Mortimer Bell
  • Morwenna Hawke
  • Moskoe-strom
  • Mount Ysene
  • Mr. Blackwood
  • Mr. Crab
  • Mr. Pennyaline
  • Mrs. Wilhelmina Fordyce
  • Musidora Draye

N: 24 names

  • Nahum Bradstreet Cabot
  • Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart
  • Narcissa Osgood
  • Nathanael Duskwood
  • Nathaniel Ravenel
  • Ned Bilgewater
  • Nepenthe
  • Nephele
  • Nerissa Marchbank
  • Nesace
  • Nevermore
  • Neville Embers
  • Nicean Bark
  • Nicholas Candlesnuff
  • Nicodemus Gaunt
  • Nicolette Raleigh
  • Night's Plutonian Shore
  • Ninon Jarvis
  • Niobe
  • Nitocris
  • Noctalie
  • Nopolis
  • Nu-Nu
  • Nyssolee

O: 32 names

  • Obadiah Sloane
  • Oberon Vail
  • Octave Montclair
  • Octavia Blythe
  • Octavius Penrose
  • Odenheimer
  • Odile Ashfall
  • Oenone
  • Oinos
  • Old Mr. Gruffandgrim
  • Oldeb
  • Olympia Dunmore
  • Ondelore
  • Ondine Maddox
  • Ophelia Ravel
  • Oppodeldoc
  • Orazio Mocenigo
  • Oremelle
  • Oriana Nightshade
  • Oriloe
  • Orson Fairleigh
  • Osbert Landry
  • Osmund Rede
  • Osric Pallister
  • Ossiane
  • Oswald Mercer
  • Otho Calloway
  • Ottavio Malaspina
  • Ottilie Ravensworth
  • Ottokar von Rabenstein
  • Oulaine
  • Oval Portrait

P: 62 names

  • P. Erasmus Quoyle
  • Palazzo Malombra
  • Palazzo Notturno
  • Pallas
  • Palmyra Thorncastle
  • Pandora Fitch
  • Parthenia Lorrimer
  • Parthenope
  • Patience Laud
  • Pauline Dubourg
  • Pedro
  • Peleg Nickerson Howes
  • Pennifeather
  • Percival Coldwater
  • Percival Wraith
  • Peregrine Inkhorn
  • Peregrine Thorne
  • Perpetua Grimm
  • Persephone Sombre
  • Peter Pendulum
  • Peter Proffit
  • Petit Gaillard
  • Petronella Fowle
  • Peverell Shade
  • Phebe Hussey Gorham
  • Philemon Strange
  • Philibert Roussel
  • Philippa Quill
  • Philomela
  • Philomena Beauvoir
  • Phineas Grieve

P, continued

  • Phoebe Hawthorne
  • Pierre Bon-Bon
  • Pierre Junot
  • Pierre Moreau
  • Piers Westmorland
  • Pilgrim Shadow
  • Pluto
  • Plutonian
  • Poindexter Greely
  • Politian
  • Polyxena
  • Pompey
  • Porphyrogene
  • Portia Leigh
  • Prefect G.
  • Preston
  • Prince Alcander
  • Princess Zoraide
  • Prior Wulfstan
  • Priscilla Monk
  • Professor Elkanah Dowd
  • Professor Fether
  • Professor Fiddlededee
  • Professor Thibault Rosier
  • Proserpina
  • Prospero
  • Prudence Cade
  • Psyche
  • Ptolemais
  • Pundit
  • Pundita

Q: 4 names

  • Quarles
  • Queen Pest
  • Quentin Darrow
  • Quintus Nightingale

R: 40 names

  • R. Montresor Dacey
  • Rafe Holme
  • Ragged Mountains
  • Randolph Wold
  • Ranulph Gale
  • Raphael Scarlett
  • Rare and Radiant
  • Rattleborough
  • Raven's Perch Tavern
  • Ravenswood
  • Red Death
  • Reginald Blackmoor
  • Reinhold von Dusterloh
  • Remigius Frost
  • Reverend Obed Kittredge
  • Richard Parker
  • Rinaldo Pisani
  • River of Silence
  • Roderick Usher
  • Roderick Vale
  • Rodolphe Keane
  • Roland Ashbury
  • Rosabel Kingsley
  • Rosalba Greymoor
  • Rosalie Poe
  • Rosalind Blackwell
  • Rosamund Ashmead
  • Roswitha von Mondschatten
  • Rowdy-Dow
  • Rowena Fane
  • Rowena Trevanion
  • Roxana Sinclair
  • Rubadub
  • Rue Dunot
  • Rue Morgue
  • Rufus Griswold
  • Ruggiero Venier
  • Rumgudgeon
  • Runic Rhyme
  • Rupert

S: 52 names

  • S. Timothee Duroc
  • Sabin Tolliver
  • Sabina Colde
  • Sabra Waverly
  • Sacheverell Kane
  • Salome Duskwood
  • San Ozzo
  • Sapphira Landry
  • Sarah Helen Whitman
  • Scheherazade
  • Sebastian Vell
  • Selene Wraith
  • Semiramis
  • Septimus Hale
  • Sepulchre by the Sea
  • Seraphina Kell
  • Seth Morland
  • Shubael Starling Wing
  • Sibyl Parr
  • Sidonia Howe
  • Sigismund Orme
  • Sigmund Totenfels
  • Sign of the Pallid Bust
  • Signor Tebaldo Grimani
  • Signor Tremolando
  • Signora Leonilda Fosca
  • Signora Psyche Zenobia
  • Silas Marchmont
  • Silvanus Kerr
  • Silver Bells
  • Simon Scribblewell
  • Sir Aymer Dunsmere
  • Sir Humbug Flummery
  • Sir Pathrick O'Grandison
  • Sir Positive Paradox
  • Sister Mary Scholastica
  • Solange Blanchard
  • Solomon Heath
  • Sombrelle
  • Sophia Randolph Minor
  • Sophronia Beckett
  • Squire Hamon Brakespear
  • Squire Thunderpate
  • Stanislaus Pell
  • Statira
  • Stephanie Lalande
  • Stratonice
  • Suky Snobbs
  • Superbus Von Underduk
  • Sylvan Aldridge
  • Sylvester Grimm
  • Sylvia Alcott

T: 58 names

  • T. Ambrose Leland
  • Talbot
  • Tamerlane
  • Tancred Yorke
  • Tarn of Dunmorrow
  • Tarn of Ollmere
  • Tekeli-li
  • Tell-Tale Heart
  • Temperance Lowe
  • Templeton
  • Thaddeus Wraye
  • Thankmar Morgenroth
  • The Abbe Hilarion
  • The Chevalier de B.
  • The Drowned Mariner
  • The Lantern and Shroud
  • The Late Squire Wendover
  • The Marquise de C.
  • The Midnight Bell
  • The Nightjar
  • The Pale Corsair
  • The Raven
  • Theobald Marsh
  • Theodora Voss
  • Theodoric Vance
  • Theophile Mercier
  • Theron Ashworth
  • Thessalune
  • Thierry Rochefort
  • Thingum Bob
  • Thisbe Shaw
  • Thomas Holley Chivers
  • Thomasina Clare
  • Thornmere Hall
  • Thought's Dominion
  • Threnelie
  • Thule
  • Thulemore
  • Thurstan Gable
  • Tiberius Wray
  • Tim Hurlygurly
  • Tintinnabulation
  • Tisiphone
  • Tithonus
  • Titus Winslow
  • Tobiah Winterhalter
  • Tobias Grey
  • Tobias Grumblethorpe
  • Toby Dammit
  • Tom Ratline
  • Tomyris
  • Too-wit
  • Torquil Briar
  • Touch-and-go Bullet-head
  • Tremaine
  • Trippetta
  • Tristram Hawke
  • Tsalal

U: 12 names

  • Ugo
  • Ugolino Tiepolo
  • Ulalume
  • Ulalume Grey
  • Ulmarie
  • Ulric Wyck
  • Ulrich von Falkenrath
  • Ultima Thule
  • Ulysses Draye
  • Una
  • Urban Gresham
  • Ursula Maine

V: 21 names

  • Valdemar Legrand
  • Valentine Ashgrove
  • Valerian Sterne
  • Valley of the Many-Colored Grass
  • Valley of the Shadow
  • Valley of Unrest
  • Vankirk
  • Vaurelie
  • Velaune
  • Venetia Mott
  • Verity Sheridan
  • Vernon Lovelace
  • Victorine Lafourcade
  • Vincent Woodville
  • Viola Thackeray
  • Violante Neame
  • Virgil Tempest
  • Virginia Clemm
  • Vivian Larke
  • Von Jung
  • Vondervotteimittiss

W: 17 names

  • W. Egaeus Thornbury
  • Warwick Elder
  • Weir
  • Wenzel Schattenburg
  • Widow Thankful Peabody
  • Wilfred Morrow
  • Wilhelm von Berlifitzing
  • William Henry Leonard Poe
  • William Wilson
  • Wilson Usher
  • Windenough
  • Wissahiccon
  • Wolfram Osgood
  • Woodland of Yeth
  • Wyatt
  • Wystan Hurst
  • Wyvenhoe Grange

X: 2 names

  • Xanthe Rue
  • Xavier Bourne

Y: 3 names

  • Yaanek
  • Yorick Graves
  • Ysolane

Z: 9 names

  • Zachariah Pale
  • Zaire
  • Zante
  • Zenas Radcliffe
  • Zenobia Pallister
  • Zephorine
  • Zephyrin Boisvert
  • Zoilus
  • Zuleika Greaves