Poe coined the phrase “the imp of the perverse” in an 1845 story of that title about an almost perfect murder. Illustration by Sandra Dionisi Elisabeth Becker went all the way from Wisconsin ...

Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

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 ...

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 ...