Many of the writer’s horror stories, including “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” were based on haunted ...

Though Poe lived a nomadic lifestyle in the 1800s, he settled in the Bronx with his ailing wife, Virginia, in 1846. With ...

If you want to add a little gothic dread to your October nights, there's no better company than our resident Master of the Macabre—Edgar Allan Poe. Here are six of his most thrilling short ...

The famed poet died in ‘delirium’, wearing someone else’s clothes. Over 170 years later, we’re still searching for answers.

Auguste Dupin, Poe's main character, was the first genius detective Kat Eschner In Baltimore, they’re keeping the tradition of visiting Edgar Allan Poe’s grave for his birthday—but without ...

Edgar Allan Poe, the author who penned some of American literature’s most chilling tales, once called Richmond home.

Magic, madness and supernatural horror have driven many book plots over the centuries. This short quiz scares up several ...

As they pushed through a wooded continent, the earliest American settlers saw devils and witches—often in the guise of ...

Starring Price and fellow horror royalty Christopher Lee, it’s the story of two brothers who are off overseeing their ...

Who knows Halloween reads better than horror authors? Ten writers pick their scariest books ever, including tomes by Stephen ...

Despite a lifetime of living in the Philadelphia area … and 15 years of living downtown itself … I’d never visited the Edgar ...

“The Edgar Allan Poe Show” on Sunday evening bridges a ... while a Sunday afternoon short story brunch at Lala Books will revisit “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado” through ...