I n 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 detective ...

His writing explores dark thoughts that are fascinating to many people. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is for guests 21 years and up. For more information, including tickets, ...

She’s a writer herself, like Virginia, and is deeply supportive of Poe’s writing, as Virginia was. She also dies young, similar to Poe’s wife, who died of tuberculosis at age 24. A scene ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s spooky raven enters the narrator’s house, perches on a bust above his chamber door, and repeats only one word, ... When Poe was writing the poem, ...

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, almost syllogistically, that any biography of him — even one as thoughtful and compassionate as Richard Kopley’s “Edgar ...

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy — coming to Mechanics Hall March 13-15 — combines a pop-up cocktail bar with an immersive show. The show feature's some of Poe's best-known works, including ...