Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's 216th birthday at his cottage in the Bronx on Sunday, January 19. In honor of the late poet's birthday, get free admission on Sunday into the cottage he called home ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

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.