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 Solves First Gruesome Murders in The First Detective Story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)*
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), is the first detective story written by Edgar Allan Poe and is considered to be the first-ever story of the detective genre, In
Poe Museum’s Garden “To One in Paradise”
“Don’t think that you are in the middle of one of Poe’s most shocking horror stories (“The Black Cat”) if you come across one or two of the coal-colored cats (Edgar
Poe’s Cryptographic Imagination – Part I
Excerpts from Murray’s VCU Master of Arts Thesis on Poe and Science © 2015. Reprinted from www.thepoeblog.org (Website of the Poe Museum of Richmond, VA)-Feb 2018 Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics to
Bringing Litchatte.com Back on Line___________________!
My apologies to the regular and new Litchatte.com readers and subscribers. My site was essentially offline for the last week or so. While I was working with the developers to
Proposing to Evalaute Poe’s Eureka: A Prose Poem
First, I am going to propose what a researcher might have to do to conduct a comprehensive study of Poe’s 1848 book, Eureka: A Prose Poem. Then, I am going to
The “Moon-Notes” at the Top of Poe’s Stairway-Part II
I arrived at the museum on a cold but sunny day in February 2013, to start my journey up Poe’s Stairway. Entering his research room, I looked around and saw
Walking with Eddie: Edgar Allan Poe and Science—Part I
This article was originally written by Murray Ellison and is being republished by him here with the generous permission of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia (www.poemuseum.org). The
