This author of (*) "The Man of the Crowd" wrote a story in which a prisoner uses the meat left for him as food to get some rats to chew off his ropes, saving him from a swinging blade.
The narrator of one story by this man classifies the people he sees from a coffeehouse window as gamblers, pickpockets, junior clerks, and upper clerks. That narrator follows a decrepit old man through the streets of London all night, before realizing the man is "the type and genius of deep crime." The narrator of another story by this man repeats "I am safe  I am safe" in an unsuccessful effort to prevent himself from the inexplicable urge to confess to poisoning a candle. This author of (*) "The Man of the Crowd" wrote a story in which a prisoner uses the meat left for him as food to get some rats to chew off his ropes, saving him from a swinging blade. For 10 points, name this author of "The Imp of the Perverse" who wrote about a man barely escaping the inquisition in "The Pit and the Pendulum."
The narrator of one story by this man classifies the people he sees from a coffeehouse window as gamblers, pickpockets, junior clerks, and upper clerks.
Edgar Allan Poe