Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe wrote more comedies and satires than horror stories and is credited with inventing the detective genre. A rival colleague, Rufus Griswold, created the lasting myth that Poe was a ...

Edgar Allan Poe, the man who invented the detective story, saved his most unsolvable mystery for last: the cause of his own untimely death. If any Edgar Allan Poe work anticipated how the author would ...

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 detective ...

While born in Boston and most often linked with Massachusetts, Maryland, and Virginia, legendary author Edgar Allan Poe ...

Once upon an afternoon dreary, two reporters came a tapping, gently rapping, at Professor Harry Lee Poe’s door, deep in the heart of Union University, to discuss his close connection to the legendary ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This collection is a great start, as it compiles some of Poe's greatest ...