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Unquestionably one of America's major writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was far ahead of his time in his vision of a special area of human experience--the "inner world" of dream, hallucination, and imagination. He wrote fiction, poetry, and criticism...

With a relatively small volume of work, some fifty poems, a short novel, about seventy short stories, and a roughly equivalent volume of essays, Edgar Allan Poe has exerted a substantial influence on American and world literature. He may be regarded with...

From the perspective of more than a century and a half, the achievements of Edgar Allan Poe as a man of letters are extraordinary. He may be regarded without too much exaggeration as the single most important influence on the development of an entire poe...

“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was born in Baltimore, where in the 1830s he began an unsettled career in magazine editing and writing. Over the next two decades, heavy drinking and frequent...

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. Today, it is considered the first detective story.[1][2] Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".[1] C. Auguste Dupin is...