At this free event, Dr. Gary Hermalyn will focus on the famous writer and his life in the Bronx -- what is now known as Poe Cottage. Call 718-579-4244? or visit nypl.org for more details...

Enigmatic 'Poe toaster' who has marked the author's birth for the last 60 years failed to show up for yesterday's celebration Edgar Allan Poe would have turned 201 yesterday, but the mysterious stranger who has marked the birth of the author for the last 60 years failed to show up at his grave. Every year since 1949, the stranger ? known locally as the Poe Toaster ? has left three roses and a ...

A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer's birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ago.

BALTIMORE - Edgar Allan Poe's fertile imagination has endured for more than 150 years ? and so has his pale, death-haunted image, with his sunken eyes, a trim mustache and unruly mop of curly hair.

BALTIMORE ? Pick a major East Coast city at random, and you're likely to find a 200th birthday celebration for Edgar Allan Poe.

FORT MYERS ?Edgar Allan Poe was a drunk, a cradle-robber (she was 13 - and his own first cousin!) and usually broke. He was also a poet and writer of enviable talent. The bird poem - "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" - that was his, among others. Poe is long dead (1849, at age 40, of causes unknown), but Will Stutts keeps bringing him back to life in his one-man show, "A Journey Through the Mind ...

A very sought after Edgar Allan Poe book is to be auctioned at New York Ingrid Bergquist Edgar Allan Poe's book is to be sold at New York auction for record winnings, reported Associated Press .

Edgar Allan Poe didn't call his classic tale "The Wicked Big Fall of the House of Usher," but he could have. After all, he was born in Boston. But on the...