The World of Edgar Allan Poe

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told." -"The Man of the Crowd" January 3, 1846 marked the f...

"I will add here, and now (Oct. 1st, 1878,) the opinion; formed long ago and still held by me, that Poe was willing--yes, that he cooll...

Elizabeth Oakes Smith may have been a successful poet, magazinist, lecturer and essayist, but where Edgar Allan Poe was concerned, she is be...

Among the innumerable minor mysteries in Edgar Allan Poe's biography is the question of whether or not he ever visited Saratoga Springs,...

Those six words are among the most intriguing--and hotly-contested--utterances ever attributed to Edgar Allan Poe. The controversy started--...

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

"Annabel Lee" is arguably Poe's most well-loved poem--certainly, it is one of the most controversial. Like "The Raven,...

In 1929, a well-known rare book dealer named Gabriel Wells presented the world with an amazing footnote to history. He announced that durin...