Edgar Allan Poe built his reputation by writing stories filled with mystery, murder, and psychological horror. Few authors have influenced literature as profoundly, inspiring generations of writers ...

Uncover the dark and curious truth behind the death of one of America's most beloved authors, Edgar Allan Poe. For centuries, the circumstances surrounding his death have remained shrouded in mystery, ...

Edgar Allan Poe was known for his macabre tales of mystery, so it's perhaps only fitting that his own death on October 7, 1849 was just as mysterious as his classic works. To this day, no one knows ...

In 1994, single in Chicago again after just giving back my wedding engagement ring, I did everything I could to keep busy. I volunteered as a docent at the Clarke-Ford House. Built in 1836, it is the ...

The Poe Toaster is dead, murdered at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe and the killer is on the loose. Solve the mystery for Poe’s 217th birthday! The podcast-style murder mystery combined séance, true ...

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 detective ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar Allan Poe” — ...