Edgar Allan Poe, the author who penned some of American literature’s most chilling tales, once called Richmond home.

Despite a lifetime of living in the Philadelphia area … and 15 years of living downtown itself … I’d never visited the Edgar ...

On Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, David Keltz returns to the Alexandria History Museum at The Lyceum for the annual “Poe in Alexandria” ...

Who knows Halloween reads better than horror authors? Ten writers pick their scariest books ever, including tomes by Stephen ...

Dr. Sharon Pajka, G-’00, was recognized with the 2024 Saturday Visiter Award during the International Edgar Allan Poe ...

There is nothing quite as dark and mysterious as the lore that surrounds famed poet and storyteller, Edgar Allan Poe ... At the Poe Museum at 1914 E. Main St., fans of the author can discover ...

The 1914 E. Main St. center recently received a letter written by poet Edgar Allan Poe to Washington Irving, author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” At the time Poe penned it, Irving was one ...

One morning in the spring of 1844, subscribers to the New York Sun were astonished to read a front-page story praising “the ...

Anyone who has watched network television probably has a belief that detective stories have been around forever. Detectives, ...

Filled with visual and verbal nods to the writer’s life and work, Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe combines the biographical with the allegorical, allowing ...

These terrifying tales by the likes of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson are more than good reads: They’ll freak you out, too.