Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in the hospital ... brutally honest book reviews. His first short stories, including “MS Found in a Bottle,” won him the top prize ...

STAUNTON — When Davey White first read Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Murders in the ... conjunction with The Virginia Festival of the Book at the American Shakespeare Center’s ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan ... Poe’s best friend. But what do we mean when we call a work “definitive”? Or when, as one of this ...

Louis Bayard, a Book World contributing writer, is the author of “The Wildes” and “The Pale Blue Eye.” To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means, almost ...

If there's two great artists that need to collaborate, it's clearly Sydney Sweeney and the undead spirit of Edgar Allan ... an 1842 short story written by horror legend Edgar Allen Poe.

Edgar Allan ... discuss Poe and his new book Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in a Virginia Festival of the Book program in the UVA Special Collections Library – just across the street from Poe’s former room at ...

Poe wrote to Irving asking him to read one of his short stories ... included three more Edgar Allan Poe letters, one of his manuscripts, a first edition of his last book “Eureka,” and a ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar ... Allan. Nor did I grasp how heavily Poe’s dead brother and mother figure in Poe’s lone novel, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (a superb book ...