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Friday, November 7 marks the 200th anniversary of one of Kentucky’s most infamous crimes: the murder of Attorney General ...

From ghostly cavalry patrols to phantom footsteps in 19th-century forts, haunted military base stories have become a staple ...

The famed poet died in ‘delirium’, wearing someone else’s clothes. Over 170 years later, we’re still searching for answers. Poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. The culprit ...

Edgar Allan Poe "was touched with more pitfalls and tragedy than most people could bear," says veteran actor Justin Fletcher. "I try to bring as much of that as I can to the role; it's necessary in ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — An actor wearing a frock coat, vest and cravat responded to the gentle “rapping, rapping” apologetically at first as if he dozed while a visitor knocked at his door but then became ...

THANKS DALENCIA SUCH A FUN TIME OF YEAR. SO MANY COOL THINGS TO DO. OCTOBER. JUST DAYS AWAY, WE’RE OFFICIALLY IN SPOOKY SEASON AND NO ONE QUITE DOES IT. LIKE THE LOCAL LEGEND OF EDGAR ALLAN POE REALLY ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe ... author of the 2013 ...

Edgar Allan Poe wrote more comedies and satires than horror stories and is credited with inventing the detective genre. A rival colleague, Rufus Griswold, created the lasting myth that Poe was a ...