Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

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 ...

It’s possible that Edgar Allan Poe may ... them up in a room, and feed them alcohol and maybe opium until it’s time to vote,” Jang said. The kidnappers might change the man’s appearance ...

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe was an American ... distinctly.” 37. “Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it ...

LATE IN HIS CAREER Poe published “The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. Late Editor of the ‘Goosetherum Foodle’” (Southern Literary Messenger, December 1844), a tale that might well characterize the ...

IT is a matter of deep regret to very many admirers of Edgar Allan Poe that no one great celebration has been arranged in commemoration of the centenary of his birth on Tuesday next, Jan. 19.