(AP) — BALTIMORE - It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth. And ...

It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth. And on Sunday in ...

BALTIMORE (Reuters Life!) - American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre who died penniless 160 years ago after a mysterious death, finally got a proper send-off in Baltimore on Sunday.

was found, delirious and in distress outside a Baltimore tavern. He was never coherent enough to explain what had befallen him since leaving Richmond, Virginia, a week earlier. He spent four days in a ...

Actors, artists, scholars, merchants, and fans of Edgar Allan Poe will converge on Baltimore this weekend to celebrate the legacy of the famed American writer on the 173nd anniversary of his death.

Baltimore has long been a little Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed — his poem, “The Raven,” for instance, has provided the name for both our football team and one of our favorite beers. This weekend, that ...

I was in junior high the first time I read "The Raven." As many young people do, I clung to the work of the tortured soul of Edgar Allan Poe - it is dark and has a sense of longing and uncertainty ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he's about to get the grand funeral ...