N o other 19 th century author is as omnipresent in today’s pop culture as Edgar Allan Poe. He has “guest-starred” on the animated series South Park and The Simpsons and bee ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Edgar Allan Poe, the author who penned some of American literature’s most chilling tales, once called Richmond home. The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Shockoe Bottom, which ...

Here is a little historical tidbit to chew on instead of your fingernails. It’s possible that Edgar Allan Poe may have been killed by nineteenth-century ratf*ckers. At the center of the legend ...

Reading Edgar Allan Poe’s goosebump-inducing poems and stories in print is creepy enough. But this Friday, you can see them performed live in The Bronx cottage where literature's favorite goth ...

One morning in the spring of 1844, subscribers to the New York Sun were astonished to read a front-page story praising “the most extraordinary adventure ever accomplished by man.’’ The ...