To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and his writings are now for the first time gathered together with an attempt at accuracy and completeness. The alleged reason for this ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

To this day, the very name of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-’49) conjures up fear, fascination, and even idolatry, as much for his ...

Two Boston College English professors duke it out in a page-turning rumble. Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe may not have much in common biographically, stylistically, or in their chosen subject matter ...