To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... he managed to carve out a fugitive living as poet, critic and short-story writer. Along the way, he found the family he ...

In effect, Mr. Stedman pronounces him a critic of exceptional ability ... In spite of his scorn for their pretensions, Edgar Allan Poe, in his way, was as deeply affected by the enthusiasm ...

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 ...

Critics have not addressed the sociohistorical origins of ... particularly texts which deal with any aspect of criminality. Genevieve Amaral, “Edgar Allan Poe's Fear of Texts: ‘The Man of the Crowd’ ...

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 ...

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 ...