The World of Edgar Allan Poe

This is just to give a heads-up that I've enabled comments on this blog, in the unlikely event that anyone wishes to communicate with me...

In case you missed the news, a "newly-discovered" MS. of "The Conqueror Worm" sold for $300,000 at auction the other da...

I just came across this upcoming novel.  From the descriptions, it sounds like a complete stinker, even by the usually abysmal standards of...

Read this, and let's all weep together.

As part of my ongoing efforts to have the two most peculiar blogs on the Internet, over at the sister site , I've posted an advertise...

In what I can only assume was a moment of madness, I started a new blog: Strange Company . I’m not sure how to describe it—it’ll have no ...

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

Every so often, Edgar makes the dreadful mistake of Googling himself. Yes, it's time for yet another peek at some of the internet ...