The World of Edgar Allan Poe

What is Halloween without Edgar Allan Poe?  What is Edgar Allan Poe without absurd, insulting apocryphal stories about his drinking habits? ...

The following poem appeared in the "New York Tribune" a few weeks after that paper published Rufus W. Griswold's infamous obit...

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 ...