Edgar Allan Poe

Tracing the life of the author who seemed to be from both everywhere and nowhere.

The story of the Little Longfellow War.

The death of mystery writer Edgar Allan Poe is its own mystery. But new research suggests election fraud may have contributed to his demise in Baltimore.

Netflix’s “The Pale Blue Eye” portrays Edgar Allan Poe as a young West Point cadet. Here’s the true story of his brief, failed military career.

Poe’s work reminds us that the separation of “Arts” and “Sciences” into discrete discourses of knowledge is itself a quite recent invention.

While Poe was likely using opium, the efforts to keep him quiet suggest that he was also drinking.

Revisiting the relationships of “a man who never smiled.”

The great discoveries of the age captivated Poe’s imagination. He almost always misunderstood them.

A new book recovers the reputation Poe had in his own lifetime of being a cross between a science writer, a poet, and a man of letters.

In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe published a novel that masqueraded as a travelogue. John Tresch guides us along this strange trip southward.

Known as a master of horror, he also understood the power—and the limits—of science.

Peeples helps us to see that Poe’s imagination was stoked by his external surroundings as well as by his interior life.

The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review.

Edgar Allan Poe knew that readers would add their visual image of the author to his work to create a personality that informed their reading.

Crypts, entombments, physical morbidity: these nightmares are prominent in Poe’s tales, a fictional world in which the word that recurs most crucially is horror.

In the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human.

Poe’s story of a treasure hunt, revealing the fantastical writer’s hyper-rational penchant for cracking codes.

A few of Encyclopædia Britannica’s famous readers, on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.

Female ghosts seem to dominate the afterlife. Whether the spirits are real or not, the reasons for the disparity could be revealing.

Penmanship was once considered a window to the soul. The digital age has closed it.