The narrative poem introduced a raven who could speak but only the word "Nevermore." The raven was referred to as a prophet during a conversation with the narrator and continuously refused to move ...

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 ...

Poe was taken in by John Allan, a wealthy Richmond merchant and an austere Scotsman who believed in self-reliance and hard work. His wife, Frances, became a second mother to Poe until she died in 1829 ...

The final days of the American writer who waxed poetic on the macabre is a greater mystery than anything he ever wrote CORBIS/Corbis via Getty American writer Edgar Allan Poe embodied mystery and the ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York.

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even ...

It's been almost 175 years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe — one of the most recognizable poets in American history. While Poe was best known for his work in the horror genre, there is much more to ...

1809 – On January 19, Edgar Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, to actors Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr. 1811 – Poe’s father, David Poe, Jr., abandons his family and disappears. A few ...

Poe coined the phrase “the imp of the perverse” in an 1845 story of that title about an almost perfect murder. Illustration by Sandra Dionisi Elisabeth Becker went all the way from Wisconsin to ...

Part radio drama, part podcast, and all Edgar Allan Poe. A new spine-tingling play for your ears every month, adapted from America’s most famous horror and suspense writer. Gothic frights, by The ...

Hannah Lauren Murray received funding for this research from Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (2014-16). Teya and Salena are not the first young women to be possessed by Poe. Their hit song ...