It is nearly fifty years since the death of Edgar Allan Poe ... upon the source of Poe's inspiration. Besides the Memoir by Professor Woodberry, the Tales, Criticisms, and Poems are severally ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...