Artikel: Desecrating Poe

The horror of “The Following” comes not just from the storytelling, but from the way it maligns a literary legacy.

Service: Edgar Allan Poe death scenes – graphic

Dismissed by Aldous Huxley as ‘vulgar’, Edgar Allan Poe is saluted now as a virtuoso of the short story. The grisly deaths he inflicted on his characters helped make him the master of the macabre.

Kolumne: Bullet Points: Mix-and-Match Edition

This time: The presentation of this year’s Edgar Awards, John Cusack as poet-author Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Coggins’ new collection of humorous first-person essays “Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters” and much more.

Artikel: Edgar Allan Poe: A Private Eye in the 21st Century

Reading a recent, online crime article about an Indiana family who found human bones in their attic, I couldn’t help but wonder what Edgar Allan Poe, the father of modern detective fiction, would make of the story.

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