Edgar Allan Poe is the inspiration behind one NFL team, the Baltimore Ravens. In 1996, the pro football team took a new name inspired by Poe's most famous work.

In May, long-time Little Theatre of Winston-Salem veterans Jim McKeny and Mark March unleashed “Poe on the Rocks,” billed as ...

Edgar Allen Poe died on Oct. 7, 1849 — 175 years ago today. Though it's unclear exactly how the writer died, here's what we do know about his mysterious death.

We meet Edgar Allan Poe, the father of the mystery tale and architect of the modern short story, at age 11, about to start boarding school and already precociously calling himself “remarkable.” ...

His legacy is more complicated than school books may have lead us to believe. We remember Edgar Allan Poe for his tales of horror and the macabre as well as inventing the entire Detective Fiction ...

Edgar Allan Poe, still looking relatively fit and healthy in a daguerreotype probably taken in New York in 1847. (Courtesy the Harvard Art Museum) The facts of his early life were far less romantic.

Edgar Allan Poe’s grave marker, erected in 1875 in Baltimore. The latest would-be Dupin to take a swing at the mystery of what, and perhaps who, killed Edgar Allan Poe is author Mark Dawidziak.

With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley, a professor emeritus of English at Penn State DuBois and a Poe specialist, brings to bear deep expertise and scholarship.

The works of Edgar Allan Poe are in the public domain, so there are many, many different versions of his work out there. If you don't know where to start, here is a guide to the best books to ...