It’s one of the most recognizable (and spookiest) poems in English. When Poe was writing “The Raven,” his wife, Virginia, was suffering from tuberculosis. It was a weird marriage—Virginia was Poe’s ...

Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

Just in time for the spooky season, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe will be the focus of upcoming performances at Jacksonville ...

In the middle of superheroes and mainstream literature characters making the jump from the page to the silver screen, filmmakers are digging deeper to come up with the next blockbusting mega-earner.

No one knows for certain what happened during Edgar Allan Poe’s final days on Earth, other than that the 40-year-old author of grisly tales and romantic poetry was found in October 1849 in Baltimore, ...

Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe meets “Se7en” in “The Raven,” a serial killer thriller set in 1849 Baltimore and conspicuously lacking mystery, suspense and poetry. Quoth “The Raven,” this is a bore.

Rotting Christ have released “The Raven,” another track from their forthcoming album, The Heretics. As you can probably guess from the title, the song was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the ...

Once upon a midnight dreary... We finally have our first "action shot" look at John Cusack as poet Edgar Allan Poe in the new movie from James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) titled The ...

Only a few seconds have passed in The Raven before that familiar shot of a quill pen at work is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector. Edgar Allan Poe puts pen to paper twice in James ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... James McTeigue is still one of my favorite directors. He started work as the first AD for the Wachowski's on all three Matrix movies ...