Detective stories captivate us today in books, on television ... 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 ...

During his short career, Edgar Allan Poe worked across genres, including short story, poetry, drama, literary theory, hoax, book review, and, yes, a novel. Driven by financial ... divide Life from ...

“Maybe Edgar Allan Poe was the first millennial.” Poe’s death in 1849 was something the author himself might ... which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague,” and his ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar ... the author in his works. A part of the disfavor with which Poe is regarded is due to Dr. Griswold's biography; for of all men Poe had best ...

When Edgar Allan Poe first unleashed the amateur detective on a crime scene in 1841’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” the author cracked ... have done their best to keep pace.

The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.