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 more to ...

Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

Listen to a compilation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” read by Megan Marshall, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Lewis, Matthew Pearl, Jeffrey Meyers, Jerome McGann, Stuart Gordon, James ...

No one knows for certain what happened during Edgar Allan Poe’s final days on Earth, other than that the 40-year-old author of grisly tales and romantic poetry was found in October 1849 in Baltimore, ...

“The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845 – 170 years ago today. It tells the story of a talking raven’s midnight visit to a distraught lover, tracing the ...

The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival returns this year, just in time for spooky season.The eighth annual street festival is free and runs Oct. 3-5 near the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum on ...

Rotting Christ have released “The Raven,” another track from their forthcoming album, The Heretics. As you can probably guess from the title, the song was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the ...

Once upon a midnight dreary... We finally have our first "action shot" look at John Cusack as poet Edgar Allan Poe in the new movie from James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) titled The ...

Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe meets “Se7en” in “The Raven,” a serial killer thriller set in 1849 Baltimore and conspicuously lacking mystery, suspense and poetry. Quoth “The Raven,” this is a bore.