Edgar Allan Poe

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If your love for Edgar Allan Poe has been gently rapping, rapping at your chamber door, just embrace it and watch Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher because it is a hoot and a half. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption

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How I learned to stop worrying and love Edgar Allan Poe

October 7, 2023 • If your love for Edgar Allan Poe has been gently rapping, rapping at your chamber door, just embrace it and watch Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher because it is a hoot and a half.

Book News: Falconer's Memoir Pulls Down Britain's Top Nonfiction Honor

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Book News: Falconer's Memoir Pulls Down Britain's Top Nonfiction Honor

November 5, 2014 • The win for Helen Macdonald's H Is for Hawk marks the first time that the Samuel Johnson Prize has gone to a memoir. Meanwhile, Lena Dunham answers sexual abuse allegations with a statement in Time.

Nevermore? Mysterious Visits To Edgar Allan Poe's Grave Declared Over

The monument in Baltimore that contains the remains of writer Edgar Allan Poe, during the pre-dawn hours earlier today. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

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Nevermore? Mysterious Visits To Edgar Allan Poe's Grave Declared Over

January 19, 2012 • For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave site in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19 — his birthday. Three roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac would be left. But after three no-shows, the tradition appears to be over.