The World of Edgar Allan Poe

As you may know, today happens to be the anniversary of the birth of the most notorious figure in Poe’s history, the Reverend Doctor Rufus W...

The following article, “The Character of Edgar Allan Poe,” appeared in the “Brooklyn Magazine” for March 1886. It was written by Margaret E...

"The Raven," as you may already know, saw its probable first publication (in the New York "Evening Mirror") on this day ...

"If I could dwell Where Israfel Hath dwelt, and he where I, He might not sing so wildly well A mortal melody, While a bolder note than ...

...Although, by this point, perhaps it would be more appropriate to forget about carnivals, and start in on the "Masque of the Red Deat...

" What I here propound is true :--therefore it cannot die--or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will 'rise ...

Ringing in the New Year at Washington Cathedral: ...What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!...

A little gem I found on YouTube. Poe! Poe! Poe! Merry Christmas!