But in reading Poe's own stories, one need not be a reader of any one special preceding writer to get the strange and solemn exultation of that literary enchanter.

He is the quintessence of his own lonely soul.
Though the wizard element is paramount in the Poe episode of this film, the appeal to the conscience is only secondary to this.

It is keener than in Poe, owing to the human elements before and after.

The Chameleon producer approximates in The Avenging Conscience the type of mystic teacher, discussed in the twentieth chapter: "The Prophet-Wizard.".