The Poe & Science Series
Was Poe Convinced that Phrenology is a Science? Murray Ellison | Jan. 8, 2018 Excerpts from Murray’s VCU Master of Arts Thesis on Poe and Science © 2015 Poe continued […]
Poe & Science with Murray Ellison
“M.S. Found in a Bottle:” A Look at Poe’s Skepticism of 19th-Century Science, Part II Murray Ellison | August 31, 2017 By being unobserved, the unnamed narrator of Poe’s, “M.S. […]
Interactive Mock Trial Used As Educational Resource
For those unfamiliar with the Mock Trial, it’s our most popular offering for school groups and it works really well for adults, too! We take Poe’s great story “The Tell-Tale […]
The Imp of the Poeverse
Which story does Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott deem as one of Poe’s “great stories, although not one of the most popular?” There may be many obscure stories coming to […]
Poe’s “Oval Portrait: and The Picture of Dorian Gray: the Artist, the Subject, and the Audience*
After reading Oscar Wilde’s, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), I was struck by how much his theme about the value of art resembled the one found in Poe’s 1842 […]
“Lines on Ale” and Other Misattributed Poems
I recently came across a curious poem in a Poe anthology entitled “To Isadore.” I was not familiar with it, but it certainly sounded like Poe’s voice throughout the stanzas, […]
New Exhibit Sheds Light on Poe’s Talented Siblings
Above: Edgar’s sister Rosalie Mackenzie Poe In spite of being reared by a frugal businessman who discouraged his writing, Edgar Allan Poe became one of the world’s greatest authors. Why […]
Poe the “Punny” Poet
It was recently brought to my attention that Poe was once a comedian. I recall first hearing this statement claimed a few years ago-after all, he has written more satire […]
When Hollywood Came to the Poe Museum
Carl Laemmle, Jr. needed a monster. The twenty-three year old president of Universal Pictures had produced a string of successful features since inheriting the company as his twenty-first birthday present. […]
Lincoln Reads Poe
Millions of students have memorized Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” but what great work of literature did the author of that famous speech memorize? According to one of his friends, John […]
All the World’s a Stage for Bill Burton
“Burton not only lies, but deliberately and wilfully lies . . . Were I in your place I would take some summary method of dealing with the scoundrel, whose infamous […]
New Exhibit Examines Poe’s Secret Code
Armies have been sending sensitive information through encoded messages for thousands of years to protect that information from falling into enemy hands, but it was Edgar Allan Poe who popularized […]