The final days of the American writer who waxed poetic on the macabre is a greater mystery than anything he ever wrote Marina Watts ... Getty American writer Edgar Allan Poe embodied mystery ...

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

As people prepare for an evening of candy and frights, we thought we’d help set the mood with a look at one of America's most ...

Local music luminaries Chan Poling, John Munson and Kenni Holmen helped create the score for the show at Ames Center in ...

When Edgar Allan Poe came to Baltimore ... to announce to America that Poe has died? His sometime-friend but also literary rival the Reverend Rufus W. Griswold who wrote the very first obituary ...

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

On Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, David Keltz returns to the Alexandria History Museum at The Lyceum for the annual “Poe in Alexandria” ...

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

On Oct. 31, Boise State Public Radio’s Idaho Matters aired an interview with Professor Steven Olsen-Smith of the Department of English Literature on “The Dark History of Edgar Allan Poe.” ...

From Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft back in the day to R.L. Stine and ... There’s too much to say about this beautifully ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

Humbly affixed to the exterior of a Subway sandwich shop location at the corner of Shattuck and Merrimack streets is a small plaque documenting Edgar Allan ... which Poe wrote in reference to ...