The World of Edgar Allan Poe

4. Frances Sargent Locke Osgood In Osgood's case, it has not been suggested that she herself was the inspiration for "Annabel Lee,...

Poe's aunt/mother-in-law is often nearly as disparaged, albeit for different reasons, as her beloved "Eddie." Poe's early ...

"He's a walking contradiction Partly truth and partly fiction" -Kris Kristofferson, "The Pilgrim" I have, as I earli...

On this blog, I have often referred to Susan Archer Talley Weiss, that prolific and pathological liar. It is hard, however, to describe her...

With the sole exception of his marriage to Virginia Clemm, all of Edgar Allan Poe's many reputed romantic relationships with women have ...

Weiss has been aptly described by Arthur Quinn as the most "irritating" of all the Poe biographers. She published several strange...