Introduction Edgar Allan Poe is today known as one of the most prominent writers during the 19th century. Many of us know him as a critic, poet and a novelist. However, he was also a language-maker and exalter of 'the power of words" during his lifetime. Perhaps this is the most obv...

"The boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins?" Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial (Bartlett, 642). To venture into the world of Edgar Allan Poe is to embark on a journey to a land filled with perversities of t...

Edgar Allan Poe has to be the most mysterious of authors that the world has ever seen. He has been the subject of more biographies, analyses, and studies than any other American author, yet now; more than 150 years after his death, much of the details of his tumultuous life are still unknown. Much...