| 100% | PYM | 3 | Title character of the only novel that Edgar Allan Poe wrote |
| 42% | ZHIVAGO | 7 | Title character of the 1958 Nobel novel |
| 41% | TELLTALE | 8 | Edgar Allan Poe wrote about this kind of heart |
| 40% | CASK | 4 | Edgar Allan Poe's The __ of Amontillado |
| 38% | TOHELEN | 7 | Edgar Allan Poe poem written for a woman named Jane, despite its title |
| 36% | TALE | 4 | Edgar Allan Poe writing |
| 36% | UNCAS | 5 | Title character in the J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| 36% | UNCAS | 5 | Title character in 1826 J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| 36% | ANNABEL | 7 | "___ Lee," last complete poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the death of a beautiful woman |
| 36% | SMIKE | 5 | Friend of the title character in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| 35% | AMYDORRIT | 9 | Title character of an 1857 novel by Charles Dickens born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors' prison |
| 35% | SMIKE | 5 | Close friend of the title character in 1839 Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
| 35% | THERAVEN | 8 | Edgar Allan Poe wrote about this bird |
| 35% | HARLOWE | 7 | Clarissa —, title character of a 1748 epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson subtitled the History of a Young Lady |
| 35% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___, author who created the character of C. Auguste Dupin, a precursor to Sherlock Holmes |
| 35% | IAN | 3 | Title character of the BBC drama ''Bondmaker'' |
| 35% | DONN | 4 | Arabella —, wife of the title character in 1895 Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure |
| 35% | HENCHARD | 8 | Michael —, hay-trusser; title character in 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| 34% | POE | 3 | Edgar Allan ___ who wrote "The Cask of Amontillado" |
| 34% | YERTLE | 6 | Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" |
| 34% | HARTMAN | 7 | Soap title character of the 1970's |
| 34% | NEVERMORE | 9 | Quoth the raven __, wrote Edgar Allan Poe |
| 34% | ERIK | 4 | Title character of "The Phantom of the Opera" |
| 34% | SAURON | 6 | Title character of "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 34% | BLACK | 5 | "The ___ Cat," gothic story by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of an unreliable narrator |
| 33% | ISRAEL | 6 | Character who provides the title of Chapter 26 of 1883 RL Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 33% | RAVEN | 5 | "The ___," gothic narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe which follows the story of the titular talking bird |
| 33% | ROSE | 4 | "The Name of the ___," best-selling novel by Umberto Eco that was originally written in Italian |
| 33% | MARS | 4 | "A Princess of ___," Edgar Rice Burroughs novel featuring the "Red Planet" in its title |