The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site will temporarily close its doors to the public starting Monday. The National Park Service property is shuttering for renovations. Over the course of ...

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 ...

It's been almost 175 years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe — one of the most recognizable poets in American history. While Poe was best known for his work in the horror genre, there is much ...

Magazine. CORBIS/Corbis via Getty American writer Edgar Allan Poe embodied mystery and the macabre in his work. But perhaps the most mysterious thing about the legendary writer is that there's no ...

Over 170 years later, we’re still searching for answers. Poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. The culprit behind his untimely end is still unknown. “Edgar Allan Poe is ...

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 ...