"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This collection is a great start, as it compiles some of Poe's greatest short stories and poems, along ...

If you're a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, you probably already know that his real life was just as interesting as (though less eerie than) the stories he penned. (Spookily, however, his cause of death ...

The mystery of how Edgar Allan Poe died has obsessed scholars for almost two centuries, and it is addressed faithfully in “A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe” by Cuyahoga ...

On Oct. 9, 1849, the New-York Tribune published an unusually tart obituary. “Edgar Allan Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will ...

There may be no greater American horror author than Edgar Allan Poe (known to many by his goth name, ‘Night Pain’). The scandalous Baltimore native perfected the climactic twist with his ghoulish, ...

When done well, the brief life gives its audience an intellectually plausible take on a famous person that's also fun to read. Still, the form's chief advantage - its brevity - cannot help leaving key ...

A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

Edgar Allan Poe came of age in a literal marketplace. Orphaned before age 3, he was informally adopted by John Allan, a trader whose import-export business dealt in consumer goods as well as cotton ...

It’s "A Christmas Carol" with a Baltimore twist, where the Ghost of Christmas Past doesn’t visit Scrooge but instead Edgar Allan Poe.

It wasn’t that long ago that the Tarot deck was just another deck of cards. For centuries, it was something to play games with, starting in Italy in the early 15th century, and not used only as a tool ...