"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If any Edgar Allan Poe work anticipated how the author would find life after his mysterious death, it is ...

Once upon a gray day dreary, the writer staggered, weak and weary. He collapsed on a Baltimore sidewalk, never to fully regain consciousness. Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in ...

In June 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was 40 years old, he left his mother-in-law and aunt, Maria Clemm, in their New York home to go on a lecture tour. He planned to raise money to start his own ...

Told in song and verse, the show is filled with visual and verbal nods to the writer’s life and work. Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe combines the biographical ...

Friday will mark 209 years since the birth of Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, to David and Elizabeth Poe. Edgar had an older brother, Henry, and a younger sister, Rosalie. After his father ...

Legendary literary figure Edgar Allan Poe, who celebrated his birthday on Jan. 19, accomplished much during his short lifespan. Before his death at age 40 on Oct. 4, 1849, he created such short story ...

Edgar Allan Poe, the man who invented the detective story, saved his most unsolvable mystery for last: the cause of his own untimely death. If any Edgar Allan Poe work anticipated how the author would ...