Edgar Allan Poe was more than a tormented poetic and literary genius writing macabre stories of gloom; he also was a husband, a companion and a friend. “He was a social person. He wasn’t some ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...

In his macabre short stories ... and Richard Kopley certainly seems the man to write it. With “Edgar Allan Poe: A Life” Mr. Kopley, a professor emeritus of English at Penn State DuBois ...

A traveling pop-up speakeasy is coming to Ridgewood in February. Sip on themed cocktails as Poe historians and actors retell his most famous works.

The Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy is a distinctive theatrical ... They were ready for gothic intrigue, something mysterious, something macabre that only Poe could provide. Patrons exiting the theater ...