The World of Edgar Allan Poe

Behold, as the city of Boston presents the Rufus Griswold Biography of memorial statues . After all these years, the Frogpondians have...

For this year's Poe Birthday Tribute, I am reprinting two articles published around the time of the Poe Centenary.  The first is ...

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.