Edgar Allan Poe

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

On the nineteenth-century artists and thinkers who pictured a future of abundance powered by steam.

The writer’s signature style of ending—a final, thrilling note—has the touch of magic that distinguishes the form at its best.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.