Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, just days after being found delirious, lying in a ditch and wearing someone else's clothes. The poet's mysterious death has captivated people ever since.

An old theory has resurfaced to shed light into the unexplained death of Edgar Allan Poe, which has become a mystery as twisted as Poe’s own writings. Poe’s death has long been shrouded in intrigue, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If any Edgar Allan Poe work anticipated how the author would find life after his mysterious death, it is the fate of the young ...

Once upon a gray day dreary, the writer staggered, weak and weary. He collapsed on a Baltimore sidewalk, never to fully regain consciousness. Four days later, on Oct. 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died in ...

In 1994, single in Chicago again after just giving back my wedding engagement ring, I did everything I could to keep busy. I volunteered as a docent at the Clarke-Ford House. Built in 1836, it is the ...

In June 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was 40 years old, he left his mother-in-law and aunt, Maria Clemm, in their New York home to go on a lecture tour. He planned to raise money to start his own ...

Unrecorded in the standard biographies of Edgar Allan Poe is a moment when the writer was visited by the spirits of his dead mother, the celebrated if self-absorbed actress Eliza Poe, and his deceased ...

Our plan was simple: Spend a weekend commemorating the death of Edgar Allan Poe — on Oct. 7, 1849 — by checking out sites related to him within a short drive of Norfolk. One of America’s greatest ...