Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

Edgar Allan Poe is a global literary icon, best known for his Gothic horror tales. Actor Denis O’Hare stars as Poe in the new documentary “American Masters – Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive.” Listen to ...

“The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845 – 170 years ago today. It tells the story of a talking raven’s midnight visit to a distraught lover, tracing the ...

Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe meets “Se7en” in “The Raven,” a serial killer thriller set in 1849 Baltimore and conspicuously lacking mystery, suspense and poetry. Quoth “The Raven,” this is a bore.

Holidays mean traditions, and we have decided to try a new one in the spirit of Halloween. Inspired by an idea from our Morning Edition host Mike Lamp, some CPR News and KRCC staff collaborated on a ...

No one knows for certain what happened during Edgar Allan Poe’s final days on Earth, other than that the 40-year-old author of grisly tales and romantic poetry was found in October 1849 in Baltimore, ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... James McTeigue is still one of my favorite directors. He started work as the first AD for the Wachowski's on all three Matrix movies ...

BALTIMORE — Actor Luke Evans and director James McTeigue laid a wreath at Edgar Allan Poe's grave as they paid their respects and talked about their upcoming film "The Raven," which reimagines the ...