It's been almost 175 years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe — one of the most recognizable poets in American history. While Poe was best known for his work in the horror genre, there is much more to ...

Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

From the look of it, even book nerds are being drawn to this year’s Super Bowl, with the second-time appearance of the Ravens, America’s only football team named after a poem, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The ...

“The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845 – 170 years ago today. It tells the story of a talking raven’s midnight visit to a distraught lover, tracing the ...

No one knows for certain what happened during Edgar Allan Poe’s final days on Earth, other than that the 40-year-old author of grisly tales and romantic poetry was found in October 1849 in Baltimore, ...

The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival returns this year, just in time for spooky season.The eighth annual street festival is free and runs Oct. 3-5 near the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum on ...

Edgar Allan Poe, the chronically needy writer and dipsomaniac who died at the age of 42 under mysterious circumstances and is buried in Charm City, is way bigger in death than he ever was in life.