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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sam Spade, Charlie's Angels, Nero Wolfe, NYPD Blue, Sherlock Holmes, Easy Rawlins, Chinatown, Miss Marple, The Silence of the Lambs, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Precious Ramotswe, even Scooby ...

Coming to Erie in April is an event for those 21 and older that will pair chilling works by Edgar Allan Poe with cocktails.

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 ...