An engaging new book shows the master of American Gothic to be a deeply disturbed man who embraced the darkness most of us ...

Edgar Allan Poe can be difficult to take seriously. His contemporaries condescended to him, regarding him as talented but ...

For 86 plus years, the Edgar Allen Poe House and Museum has existed — half of what it once was — sharing a wall with the city ...

The quintet plays songs by Bob Dylan and Jackie Wilson; Ricky Nelson and the Red Hot Chili Peppers; Johnny Cash and the ...

Three Iowa organizations have received National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” grants this year to spark community ...

Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849 at the age of forty in Baltimore, Maryland. The mysterious circumstances of his death only added to his Gothic-y myth—which, 176 year later, is as potent as ever. Beyond ...

The stories are by Edgar Allan Poe, the music is by Danny Elfman (who wrote the music for everything from “The Simpsons” to ...

"I will never forget the first time I burst into the main room to perform 'The Bells' and found all these shadowy figures ...

As Philadelphia rounds the corner into spooky season, fans of all things gothic, literary, or historical may be disappointed ...

This week in the magazine, Jill Lepore considers some of the more fascinating aspects of Edgar Allan Poe’s character, like his penchant for puzzles. Here, she offers our readers a chance to take on ...

The Pumpkin Press features glowing pumpkins, ravens, hidden literary references and Poe- and Sleepy Hollow-inspired cocktails ...