Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers, and Richard Kopley pays tribute to two of them: Arthur Hobson Quinn and Kenneth Silverman. So, what is there to add? The short answer, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Every life and reputation could use some buffing up now and then, and Edgar Allan Poe, his influence obscured by legions of bad imitators, more than most.

His name conjures up images of premature burial, black cats, forbidden crypts, and crumbling old houses where terrifying secrets dwell. Almost one hundred and fifty years after his death, Edgar Allan ...