The World of Edgar Allan Poe

To All You Nincompoops Who Have Been Posting This on Pinterest, Reddit, and Tumblr as a Genuine Photo of Edgar Allan Poe and Abraham Lincoln...

The above photo is one I have been seeing all over the internet lately, particularly on Twitter. It is always described, without reserv...

I do not like thee, Griswold, R., I hate thee near, I hate thee far. I hate the bios that you write, I hate them day, I hate them nig...

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...