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 […]
New Exhibit Explores Mental Illness in Poe’s Life and Work
True! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? ~ Edgar Allan Poe, ”The Tell-Tale Heart,” 1843 […]
Poe Scholar Decodes Poe’s Gold-Bug
Poe was much more than the Master of the Macabre. He was also the Master of Mystery, the inventor of detective fiction, and an avid cryptographer who introduced puzzles and […]
Folio Society Releases New Edition of Poe’s Only Novel
The Poe Museum recently received a small slip-cased volume in the mail. While most of the books that cross my desk contain Poe’s tales of terror (“The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The […]
Edgar Allan Poe Hoax Now on Display at Poe Museum
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia recently acquired a rare 1846 British pamphlet Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis, in which Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional story of mesmerizing the dead, […]
Rival Editor Skewers Poe in the Pages of Contemporary Magazine
December Object of the Month: The John-Donkey Most of what we know about Poe is wrong. It has long been well known that his literary executor Rufus W. Griswold fabricated […]
Poe as a Popularizer of 19th-Century Sceince
During the Industrial Revolution of the early nineteenth century, there was a need for a new class of writers who could write about emerging scientific information in a way that […]
Poe as a Popularizer of Nineteenth-Century Sceince
Poe as a Popularizer of Nineteenth-Century Science Several important modern-day science historians have conceded that their present understanding of how Industrial Age technologies affected society is limited, and some have […]
Did Poe Really Say That?
There are many popular Poe quotes circulating the Internet, quotes that are even printed on merchandise. Unfortunately, a majority of Poe quotes are falsely attributed to the literary genius. Some […]
Edgar Allan Poe in Science # 2—September 2014 by Murray Ellison
Perhaps Edgar Allan Poe’s most overlooked contribution to English literature is that he is one of the earliest American writers who commented on many of the ways that the emerging […]
Poe Museum’s Poem of the Week is “Ulalume”
One of the most cherished possessions of the Providence Athenaeum is a volume of the American Review with Edgar Allan Poe’s faint signature written in pencil under the anonymous poem […]
Poe Museum’s Poem of the Week: “Eldorado”
In observance of National Poetry Month, the Poe Museum will profile a different poem each week in April. The first is one of Poe’s last poems and a favorite of […]