Could the pugnacious writer ever have imagined that he would one day become a cult hero? Nick Lehr/The Conversation via DALL-E 2, CC BY-SA Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 215 years old on Jan.

This episode examines Poe's final days and brings to life renowned works. Poe's young wife suffers a fatal disease, compelling him to write "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Raven." He strives to ...

A new biography, “Edgar Allan Poe” by Richard Kopley, is a sympathetic portrait of the horror master, connecting his life story to his fiction.

The sting of the Ravens loss has left me. It is kind of like a cut; it hurts for a day then scabs over, and done. With that, the painful loss is done. But we did have a couple of cool Ravens stories ...

In 1994, single in Chicago again after just giving back my wedding engagement ring, I did everything I could to keep busy. I volunteered as a docent at the Clarke-Ford House. Built in 1836, it is the ...

“A Ravenous Feast: Spellbinding Recipes Inspired by The Literary Works of Edgar Allan Poe” features a collection of delicious, ghastly and gothic recipes transforming Edgar Allan Poe’s works into easy ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook There probably too many Poe references and influences in The Fall of the House of Usher to include ...

Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

Edgar Allan Poe, who would have turned 214 years old on Jan. 19, 2023, remains one of the world’s most recognizable and popular literary figures. But as a Poe scholar, I sometimes wonder whether Poe’s ...