More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...

Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers, and Richard Kopley pays tribute to two of them: Arthur Hobson Quinn and Kenneth Silverman. So, what is there to add? The short answer, ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing ... a great talent who struggled with alcohol use, as an amiable guy with good friends. “I’m thinking particularly of his ...

Sylvester Stallone once wanted Robert Downey Jr. for his Edgar Allan Poe biopic, but he felt the timing wasn’t right—keep reading to know why he waited!

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 ...

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 ...

Two Boston College English professors duke it out in a page-turning rumble. Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe may not have much in common biographically, stylistically, or in their chosen subject matter ...

That's especially true of his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, particularly The Masque of the Red Death, which represents an artistic apex for the poet laureate of exploitation films. Although made on ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a distinctive theatrical experience that stages four of Poe's dark tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Raven," and "The Masque of Red Death" as ...