For Edgar Allan Poe, 2009 has been a better year than 1849. After dozens of events in several cities to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, he’s about to get the grand funeral that a writer of ...

BALTIMORE - It's been a good 200th anniversary year for Edgar Allan Poe. The master of gothic horror has been celebrated at events in several cities to mark the bicentennial of his birth. And on ...

BALTIMORE (Reuters Life!) - American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre who died penniless 160 years ago after a mysterious death, finally got a proper send-off in Baltimore on Sunday.

Placards on display explain circumstances surrounding his death. A re-enactment of Edgar Allan Poe’s “body” and casket are on display at the Laurel Historical Society Museum now through Nov. 28. The ...

was found, delirious and in distress outside a Baltimore tavern. He was never coherent enough to explain what had befallen him since leaving Richmond, Virginia, a week earlier. He spent four days in a ...

I was in junior high the first time I read "The Raven." As many young people do, I clung to the work of the tortured soul of Edgar Allan Poe - it is dark and has a sense of longing and uncertainty ...