Most people likely associate Edgar Allan Poe as a writer of some of the world’s scariest horror stories. His most famous poem, “The Raven,” creates moods of terror as the
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Poe’s Roll of the Dice Comes Up Short in “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (Part II of II)
In Poe’s first serialized version of “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” his fictional tale of the real-life Mary Rogers murder, a female body was discovered in the Seine River about
Poe’s Mystery of Marie Roget: Fictional Murder Mystery or Real-Life Journalism? (I fo II)
In “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), the police assume that the murders have been committed by some persons associated with the victim. Dupin discards this unproven assumption and
Poe Is The First to Write About Ratiocination and Detective Fiction
Urban crime was an area of acute interest in the nineteenth century in America and Europe because the public feared that it was rampant and out of the control of
Poe Travels to the Future and the Past in his 1849 tale, “Mellonta Tauta”
In Poe’s Imaginary Journey, “Mellonta Tauta” (1849), the narrator, Pundit, embarks on a balloon trip to outer space in the year of 2848 and writes a letter from the
MS Found in a Bottle – Poe’s Uncertainties About 19th-Century Science
This review is an excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU MA Thesis on Poe and Nineteen-Century Science©. Originally published in the Edgar Allan Museum’s Science Blog: www.thepoeblog.org Poe illustrated his
Poe and the Gothic Uncertainties of 19th-Century Science
(Excerpt from Murray Ellison’s 2015 VCU M.A.Thesis on Poe and 19th-Century Science ©. Reprinted from www.thepoeblog.org – 11/27/2018). Several researchers have proposed that late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Gothic writers
Poe’s Balloon Hoax Yields Diamonds in the Sky – Part II of II
As I noted in Part I of this column, J. Harris was one of the many researchers who connected Locke’s “Moon Hoax” with Poe’s April 1844 New York Sun columns on
Poe’s Great Balloon Hoax – Part I of II
This article is an excerpt from Murray Ellison’s VCU MA Thesis on Poe and Nineteenth-Century Science, ©2015. It was first published 8/20/2018 on the Richmond, VA Poe Museum Website: www.poemuseum.org Near
Poe Among the First to Promote Photography
*This essay is part of Murray Ellison’s Master’s Thesis from Virginia Commonwealth University on Edgar Allan Poe and Science©. This column was first published on the www.thepoeblog.org Seldom considered among
