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 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
Did Poe Write His Best-Selling Book?
Most readers of his work would never guess that Edgar Allan Poe’s bestselling book was The Conchologists First Book, first published in April 1839. The author of that book was listed as Edgar Allan
Private Perry is Mr. Poe
This article is excerpted from Murray’s VCU, MA Thesis. © by the author 2015. It also is being reprinted with permission from the Poe Museum and their website: www.poemuseum.org (Poe &
