The stories and poems scribbled by the half-mad Romantic ... More recently, though, the 2017 PBS American Masters film, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, downplayed the tortured image.

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe was a lot. Which means ... seeds of science fiction and left behind easily a dozen ...

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 ...