Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was never one for a happy ending. The celebrated writer of stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the classic poem “The Raven” specialized ...

Edgar Allan Poe called it "perhaps the most interesting ... an ancient city on whose history books throw but little light. Stela P is a portrait of Butz' Chan (Smoke Snake or Smoke Sky), who ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...