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 ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of detective ...

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 ...

Our plan was simple: Spend a weekend commemorating the death of Edgar Allan Poe — on Oct. 7, 1849 — by checking out sites related to him within a short drive of Norfolk. One of America’s greatest ...

Tuesday January 19 is the birthday of one of America's most-celebrated short-story writers: Edgar Allan Poe. Though he's most-well-known for his works of Gothic horror, Poe also wrote humor, satire, ...

It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and his writings are now for the first time gathered together with an attempt at accuracy and completeness. The alleged reason for this ...

It’s difficult not to encounter the work of Edgar Allan Poe. His famous raven’s refrain “Nevermore” continues to caw in high school classrooms. The icy grip of his short stories keeps hold of our ...

In June 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was 40 years old, he left his mother-in-law and aunt, Maria Clemm, in their New York home to go on a lecture tour. He planned to raise money to start his own ...

Previous articles in this blog have described the tortured lives of remarkably creative and accomplished figures, including Herman Melville, Charles Darwin, and Abraham Lincoln, and touched on the ...

It's getting closer and closer to Halloween, and that means its the season to tell ghost stories and other spooky tales. Now is the time to plan your trip to East Bridgewater or Salem, where you can ...