On Oct. 3, 1849, American poet Edgar Allan ... sober; Poe resigned under duress just a few months later. So, apparently, he could not. Poe’s binge drinking was likely what caused his death ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan ... Poe married when she was 13. The marriage wasn’t immediately consummated, but they ...

The 40-year-old poet and author—best known for his macabre detective stories and poems like “The ... does about the life and death of the enigmatic Edgar Allan Poe.

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 ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven ... a grieving narrator mourning the death of his lover, Lenore.

CORBIS/Corbis via Getty American writer Edgar Allan ... Poe died at 40 years old. Details surrounding the days leading up to his demise are the stuff of legend. Not even his medical records or ...

The 21-and-older cocktail experience reimagines four of his most famous works and pairs them with drinks that complement the ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a distinctive theatrical experience that stages four of Poe's dark tales, "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Raven," and "The Masque of Red Death" as ...

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