IV CONIEC celebrates the bicentennial of E. A. Poe to mark 200 years of this great poet critic and writer/ founder of short stories. The life and literary legacy of Poe have never sized to attract generations of readers, scholars and writers. The most universal of the nineteenth-century American writers, he has been recreated by the imagination of great writers such as: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Manet, Conan Doyle, Doré and Debussy, to cite few. A creator of landscapes imbued by fantasy and ethereally beautiful women as well as scenes of horror and mystery, Poe has not lost his fascination for readers young and old, be they laymen or academics, in the twenty-first century. Suggested thematic topics: • The Lyrical Poetry of Edgar A. Poe; • E. A. Poe - Gothic and Romantic; • Horrible and macabre in Poe's tales; • Parody, carnivalesque, grotesque, and other aspects in Poe's writing; • Translation and reception of E. A. Poe in Brazil; • Poe on screen – film and television adaptations of his works; • Secrets and enigmas in Poe's life and works; • Woman in Poe’s world