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 ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... his days violently delirious in a Baltimore medical college. So few mourners showed up at his funeral that the minister ...

Like The Great Gatsby and Moby-Dick, Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher and The Cask of Amontillado are among the top 100 books assigned in American college ... film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried ...

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Two Boston College English professors duke it out in a page-turning rumble. Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe may not have much in common biographically, stylistically, or in their chosen subject matter ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abstract Edgar Allan Poe's enigmatic story “The Man of the Crowd,” featuring ... Zipser has a J.D. in law from UC Hastings College of the Law and an M.A. in English from UCLA. He has taught law and ...