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 ...

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

Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe may not have much in common biographically ... Rebekah Mitsein: Austen’s books take readers far outside of the drawing room. There are no plots without Lord Mansfield’s ...

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 ...