Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” Ladies’ Companion ... John Irwin remarks that Poe is referring to Oedipus here as the riddle solver, for Poe’s narrator solves the Rattleborough murder ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even ...

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 ...

The minds behind Factory of Terror present The Midnight Games. Explore this fun, new, immersive experience inspired by the works of Poe.

More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...

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 ...