"A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe" by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin's Press, $28.99, 288 pages) Edgar Allan Poe has maintained a hold on the American imagination since he ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Charlotte Vassell, Nathan Ashman and other authors were recognized for their contributions to the mystery genre last year Brenton ...

Once upon a gray day dreary, the writer staggered, weak and weary. He collapsed on a Baltimore sidewalk, never to fully regain consciousness. Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in ...

The spring day was anything but weak and weary. Novelist John May recalls that the sky was blue, the weather warm as he walked in New York's Greenwich Village in search of the apartment building where ...

Glasses get lifted to Edgar Allen Poe during a traveling tour pairing Poe-themed cocktails with readings of his familiar writings.

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

LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A one-page 1837 letter from the writer Edgar Allan Poe to the editor of a popular women's magazine has been sold for $164,000 at auction. Poe wrote to Sarah ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." No other 19 th century author is as omnipresent in today’s pop culture as Edgar Allan Poe. He has ...