More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image. “He comes off instead as a smart guy who wanted to become famous ...

On Oct. 3, 1849, American poet Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious, confused and wearing someone else’s ratty clothes in a Baltimore, Maryland gutter. Yes, literally! He was taken to a nearby ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...