In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

The throughline, of course, is his signature stripe and the dog-shaped ... “I grew up loving Edgar Allan Poe,” he said, “and also, I do always like for people to see that I’m an American ...

I n the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invent ...