Writer Veronica Hinke runs through some of the most popular theories about Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in Baltimore.

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In June 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was 40 years old, he left his mother-in-law and aunt, Maria Clemm, in their New York home to go on a lecture tour. He planned to raise money to start his own ...

Wondering who is the Godfather of horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe leads the pack. Poe revolutionized the genre in the 1840s ...

Once upon a gray day dreary, the writer staggered, weak and weary. He collapsed on a Baltimore sidewalk, never to fully regain consciousness. Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in ...

A Mystery of Mysteries is a brilliant biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author's life through the prism of his mysterious death and its many possible causes. It is a moment ...

Our plan was simple: Spend a weekend commemorating the death of Edgar Allan Poe — on Oct. 7, 1849 — by checking out sites related to him within a short drive of Norfolk. One of America’s greatest ...

Get ready for the A24 take on ‘The Masque Of The Red Death.’ If the deal happens, Sweeney will star in a new film version of The Masque of the Red Death written and directed by Charlie Polinger, which ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Mary Rogers, the “Beautiful Cigar Girl,” was found dead in the Hudson River in 1841. Her unsolved murder sparked national ...