The Koran, Edgar Allan Poe and Science
Edgar Allan Poe has a reputation for mockery and secrecy. He loved to challenge his readers with riddles, hoaxes, and cryptography. He was a talented crypto-analyst and he wrote articles about ‘secret writing’, as he called it. He used this […]
The Koran, Edgar Allan Poe and Science
By René van Slooten
Edgar Allan Poe has a reputation for mockery and secrecy. He loved to challenge his readers with riddles, hoaxes, and cryptography. He was a talented crypto-analyst and he wrote articles about ‘secret writing’, as he called it. He used this […]
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive premieres in Baltimore
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive premiered in Baltimore last Thursday night. The film will air nationwide next fall on the PBS series American Masters. A near-capacity crowd filled the Peabody
Was Edgar Allan Poe robbed?
On “The Airship” literary blog on Oct. 21, 2014, the writer Nicholas Laskin begins a story about the demise of Edgar Allan Poe as follows: “Even 165 years after
Was Edgar Allan Poe’s death predictable?
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
Where did Edgar Allan Poe have his last drink?
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
Consultant: Stuff Poe’s museum in the B&O Railroad caboose
(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
Baltimore sneaks Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum’s report past public
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
Baltimore Ravens fail to honor Edgar Allan Poe
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
Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe House is nevermore
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
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum needs a savior
(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
