Poe coined the phrase “the imp of the perverse” in an 1845 story ... best shadowy and vague,” and his voice is still heard from beyond the grave. As Ocker puts it now, “Never RIP, Edgar ...

Sam Spade, Charlie's Angels, Nero Wolfe, NYPD Blue, Sherlock Holmes, Easy Rawlins, Chinatown, Miss Marple, The Silence of the Lambs, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Precious Ramotswe, even Scooby ...

Edgar Allan ... detective story. He wrote macabre tales; he wrote lyrical poems, mystery novels, cosmology, and the best criticism of his time. He tried to be great in every genre he worked in.” ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe ... handed down through the family of Poe’s best friend. But what do we mean when we call a work ...

To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan Poe ... best of him lay. And so, a death-obsessed writer brought new life to Gothic ...