Poe no Ichizoku(ポーの一族Pō no Ichizoku, lit. "The Poe Family") is a Japanese shōjo historical manga by Moto Hagio that depicts a family of vampires from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The two main characters, Edgar Portsnell and Allan Twilight, as well as the family are named after Edgar Allan Poe. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Flower Comics from 1972 to 1976 and collected in nine bound volumes. Poe was the first shōjo manga to be released in this format. Poe no Ichizoku received the 1976 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga along with Hagio's They Were Eleven. In 1974, the first print run of the first volume (30,000 copies_ sold out in one day, which permitted Hagio to continue with more stories set in the Poe universe. It was inspired by Shotaro Ishimori's story "Mist, Roses and St