BALTIMORE -- Undeterred by controversy, a mysterious visitor paid his annual tribute at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe early Saturday, placing three red roses and a half-filled bottle of cognac before ...

Raise a grave-side toast to Edgar Allan Poe at the official party of the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards. This year’s Black Cat Ball was a Mesmeric Masquerade, a triple invocation of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the third year in a row, the “Poe Toaster” -- who regularly marked ...

The mysterious visitor to Edgar Allan Poe’s grave has failed to show up for the second year in a row. Fans of the writer waited all night at the Baltimore cemetery where Poe is buried, hoping for a ...

Shortly before Edgar Allan Poe died Oct. 7, 1849, a Baltimore Sun typesetter reportedly found him in a Baltimore tavern, filthy and delirious. Friends took him to a nearby hospital where, days later, ...

A red glow fills the chapel as narrator Patrick O’Sullivan introduces the main attraction: Edgar Allan Poe. “Over a century and a half since his death in 1849, no one remains as synonymous with ...