The free illustrated highlight talk will be held in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway on Wednesday, February 25 from 2.30pm. Orphaned at the age of two, Poe was taken ...

Guests explored the old cemetery, followed the trail of a killer, and took part in a shared investigation guided by a haunted ...

Mystery Writers of America announced the list of nominees for the 2026 Edgar Allan Poe Awards on Jan. 20, honoring the best ...

On January 19, 1915, the world saw the first large-scale aerial bombing raid on Britain when German Zeppelin airships ...

The artist isn’t known for her drawings, but in a new show these cryptic, sometimes unsettling works speak volumes.

Reality sometimes feels stranger than fiction. Throughout history, certain events have unfolded in ways that defy logic and ...

Edgar Allan Poe admired earlier writers like poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who wrote “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways,” and Lord Byron, who penned “Don Juan.” Another of his greatest ...

One doesn’t think of Edgar Allan Poe as a Pennsylvanian, but the Boston, Massachusetts native did live in Philadelphia from 1838-1844. It was a time in which some observers say the six-year period was ...

The famed poet died in ‘delirium’, wearing someone else’s clothes. Over 170 years later, we’re still searching for answers. Poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. The culprit ...

Everyone at Halloween knows to be on the lookout for ghosts, ghouls and assorted graveyard habitués, but there’s another kind of bogey that can undercut your spooky fun and spoil all the parts of the ...

Tucked on a dim side street of Historic Fourth Avenue is a late 1920s building seething with fog and swarming with ravens. Poe’s Art House opened last October and has been haunting the Avenue with its ...

Explore when Edgar Allan Poe discovers his true calling as a writer. Despite a difficult upbringing, Poe discovers his true calling as a writer, and marries his beloved Virginia. He creates the ...