In October 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found wandering in Baltimore after an unexplained absence of five days. Discovered ...

Edgar Allan Poe can be difficult to take seriously. His contemporaries condescended to him, regarding him as talented but ...

An engaging new book shows the master of American Gothic to be a deeply disturbed man who embraced the darkness most of us ...

Emily Ogden blends literary criticism and biography in this captivating portrait of the American writer and poet.

Read our review of Erin Shields’ haunting new play ‘To a Flame,’ a chilling feminist reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic ...

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For 86 plus years, the Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum has existed — half of what it once was — sharing a wall with the city ...

Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 at the age of forty in Baltimore, Maryland. The mysterious circumstances of his death only added to his Gothic-y myth—which, 176 year later, is as potent as ever. Beyond ...

This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore considers some of the more fascinating aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s character, like his penchant for puzzles. Here, she offers our readers a chance to take on ...

The stories are by Edgar Allan Poe, the music is by Danny Elfman (who wrote the music for everything from “The Simpsons” to ...