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

The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.

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 ...

More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...

WELL, THE HISTORIC EDGAR ALLAN POE HOUSE IS IN NEED OF MORE SPACE. A $150,000 DONATION FROM WELLS FARGO IS HELPING THE MUSEUM TEAM UP AND RECEIVE ACHIEVE THEIR MISSION. THE GOAL IS NOT ONLY TO ...

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

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 ...

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 ...