It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe ... influence which Coleridge exerted upon Poe is curiously exemplified in his poems from the time that he began to write.

It was October 3, and the renowned American author Edgar Allan Poe was discovered outside ... Click through the gallery for more curious details about Poe's death, and the fascinating theories ...

The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe ... to unfold. Poe's works seemed to obsess about fear and death.