FILE - In a Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 file photo, the original grave of Edgar Allen Poe is shown with a bottle of cognac and roses left by a mysterious visitor, in Baltimore.

“Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography” (Arthur Hobson Quinn, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941): A well-written, sympathetic biography and one of the standards.

A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer's birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ...

News National News Mystery visitor to Poe’s grave a no-show Cynthia Pelayo, of Chicago, leaves roses and cognac at the burial site of Edgar Allen Poe Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 in Baltimore.

It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on ...

BALTIMORE - For the 58th straight year, a mysterious visitor left birthday cognac and roses at Edgar Allan Poe's grave Friday, and he was watched by more onlookers than ever, ...

For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave site in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19 — his birthday. Three roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac would be left.

BALTIMORE – For the 57th straight year, a mystery man paid tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by placing roses and a bottle of cognac on the writer's grave to mark his birthday. Some of the 25 ...

In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, the tortured literary maestro was reportedly laid to rest at Westminster Church and Cemetery in West Baltimore where he remains for eternity. Or maybe not. Sam Porpora ...

View of the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe in the cemetery surrounding Westminster Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1949. The gravestone features bas-relief portraits of Poe.

From “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe’s acclaimed poem, we know that birds can speak. If the Enchanted Garden at the Poe Museum in Richmond, which celebrates its centennial this year, had a ...