A true master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe is behind many timeless tales, but The Masque of the Red Death and Hop-Frog rank ...

Why should today’s readers check out an 1838 book about an American man’s increasingly bizarre and terrifying journey to the ...

Edgar Allan Poe made a career out of doom and despair, yet today, even a century after his death, he remains one of the most ...

Edgar Allan Poe is the inspiration behind one NFL team, the Baltimore Ravens. In 1996, the pro football team took a new name inspired by Poe's most famous work.

Almost one hundred and fifty years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe’s prose and poetry continue to frighten, influence and inspire writers, composers, artists, poets, and readers all over the world.

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar ...

Edgar Allan Poe died 166 years ago today, but nobody can agree how. On Oct. 3, 1849, a newspaper typesetter named Joseph W. Walker came across Poe in a Baltimore gutter. The legendary author was ...

You might have known that 'The Pale Blue Eye' references Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart," but we bet you didn't catch all of these references.

His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe. We remember Edgar Allan Poe for his tales of horror and the macabre as well as inventing the entire Detective Fiction ...