On June 30, 1849, the Boston newspaper “The Flag of Our Union” announced that a poem by Edgar Allan Poe called “To My Mother” would appear in its next

In his authoritative 1941 biography of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Hobson Quinn wrote that on October 3, 1849, an election day in Baltimore, when a printer named Joseph Walker

(This is the second part of our series on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum's future. To read the first part click here.) Trains. Almost nothing else on earth evokes

Edgar Allan Poe is generally credited with writing the first detective novel.  His engrossing tales featuring the French detective C. Auguste Dupin were the foundation for a completely new

The Ravens don't deserve to be called the Ravens. Change the name. But let me give you the back story first. I remember growing up in a suburb outside of Milwaukee

Nevermore? That’s what Poe fans worldwide are wondering today. As of three o’clock Friday, The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum on Amity Street in Baltimore has officially closed.  Control of

(This is the third story in a three-part series on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.) The setting wasn’t exactly Dickensian though the varlet was as dissenting as Scrooge himself. On a

(This is the second story in a three-part series on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.) The grandstands rumble as more than a dozen Indy cars speed across the

(This is the first of a three-part series on the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum.) Life, as seen through the lens of literature, has a funny way of presenting