From the start, Poe’s foster father called the arrangement “an experiment,” which meant that young Edgar was never formally ...

To this day, the very name of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-’49) conjures up fear, fascination, and even idolatry, as much for his ...

In other words, he “made possible about 80 percent of contemporary literature and television programming,” says J.W. Ocker, author of Poe-Land. With C ... film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried ...

Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day was the Parkman murder. Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a Frenchman of unusually acute ⁠— if almost "diseased ...