The World of Edgar Allan Poe

I have a fondness for "Raven" parodies--19th century writers found them irresistible--and this one is particularly suited for ...

A lesser-known bit of Poeana is that that most romantic and perplexing of "mad kings," Ludwig II, was a passionate admirer of Poe....

Rene Van Slooten, one of the more original and insightful Poe scholars out there, has an interesting article about how analysis of Edgar...

Logansport Tribune, January 9, 1911

To All You Nincompoops Who Have Been Posting This on Pinterest, Reddit, and Tumblr as a Genuine Photo of Edgar Allan Poe and Abraham Lincoln...

The above photo is one I have been seeing all over the internet lately, particularly on Twitter. It is always described, without reserv...

Behold, as the city of Boston presents the Rufus Griswold Biography of memorial statues . After all these years, the Frogpondians have...

For this year's Poe Birthday Tribute, I am reprinting two articles published around the time of the Poe Centenary.  The first is ...

What is Halloween without Edgar Allan Poe?  What is Edgar Allan Poe without absurd, insulting apocryphal stories about his drinking habits? ...

The following poem appeared in the "New York Tribune" a few weeks after that paper published Rufus W. Griswold's infamous obit...

Poe and Dickens were two very different writers. They spent their lives in  separate  countries, only met on two brief occasions, and thei...