Edgar Allan Poe's drinking was almost as infamous ... Read more: 13 Liquors Your Home Bar Should Have But the Poe family recipe is not for the faint of heart. In addition to the rum and brandy ...

Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...

Auguste Dupin, Poe's main character, was the first genius detective Kat Eschner In Baltimore, they’re keeping the tradition of visiting Edgar Allan Poe’s grave for his birthday—but without ...

The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.

Is the "Poe Toaster" nevermore? For decades, a mysterious man left a three roses and cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave to mark the anniversary of the writer's birth. But after the visitor ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...