More than a century and a half after his untimely demise, there are still rumors and legends about how the master of macabre met his end.

Edgar Allan Poe built his reputation by writing stories filled with mystery, murder, and psychological horror. Few authors ...

The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and other macabre mysteries.

Edgar Allan Poe can be difficult to take seriously. His contemporaries condescended to him, regarding him as talented but childish and undisciplined. “If we imagine an extremely sensitive boy, full of ...

A retired teacher reflects on mortality and Edgar Allan Poe, offering a perspective on living life to the fullest.

From the short story he called his "best tale" and the work he considered his masterpiece to the book he called "silly," here are Edgar Allan Poe's favorite and least favorite of his own works.

These eerie lines set the tone for a haunting spooky season.

The amount wasn't enough to support the financially struggling writer, despite how successful the poem was.

Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 at the age of forty in Baltimore, Maryland. The mysterious circumstances of his death only added to his Gothic-y myth—which, 176 year later, is as potent as ever. Beyond ...

CONKLIN, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Boredom is nevermore for seventh graders in Susquehanna Valley as they learned about Edgar Allan Poe. The Richard T. Stank Middle Schoolers spent the day solving puzzles ...

Miss Clarkson. I have read that you wanted a bird but were not permitted to obtain it. Well, I am in possession of a bird and ...

Poe was born January 19, 1809, in Boston and spent most of his childhood in Richmond. He's renowned for macabre works such as ...