The World of Edgar Allan Poe

"I do like Mrs. H[oughton] so much for herself & not only for her goodness to Poe, but your suggestion as to that copy of a letter ...

"The snares and subterfuges he [Poe biographer John H. Ingram] had encountered in his dealing with the ladies who had known Poe, and so...

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

"Still, it is easy enough to see that Poe must appear a clouded and legendary figure to those who derive their knowledge of him from th...

"To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness." -Edgar Allan Poe Although certain ...

"...the magnitude of a slander is usually in the direct ratio of the littleness of the slanderer, but, above all things, of the impunit...

In 1909, at a New York event celebrating the centenary of Poe's birth, an elderly lady named Sarah Miller presented--for the first time-...

In March 1851 the Milwaukee "Daily Free Democrat" copied a death notice that had recently appeared in a New York newspaper: "...

In March of 1849, Poe republished his 1846 Valentine poem to Frances Osgood. He rewrote the poem--an acrostic containing her name--correcti...