The stories and poems scribbled by the half-mad Romantic ... More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image.

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot ... for “Eureka,” an excursion in cosmological prose poetry that I join ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan ... Poe invented the genre of detective fiction. Four years later he introduced into poetry the indelible ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...