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Historical poets gone wild? Watch Edgar Allan Poe unleash hell in The Raven trailer!

Meredith Woerner — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:53:25 PDT

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The first trailer for The Raven is out, showing off John Cusack as the goateed poet who's tracking down a serial killer (with the cops) who's leaving pieces of his stories as clues. Think of it as old timey Castle, but with half the Fillion charisma! More »

John Cusack's new movie The Raven will be Seven with Edgar Allan Poe

Lauren Davis — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:30:00 PDT

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John Cusack steps into the shoes (and moustache) of Edgar Allan Poe, in the ahistorical murder mystery The Raven. Director James McTeigue says the movie will be like Seven, with a series of grisly killings based on Poe's tales. More »

What we're dying to see from ABC's Edgar Allan Poe crime procedural TV series

Meredith Woerner — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:17:53 PST

ABC has greenlit a historical cop show starring Edgar Allan Poe, world-famous poet and pioneer of science fiction and horror, as the world's first detective. It will be set during the 1840s in Boston. Here's what the show must include. More »

Q (aka John De Lancie) reads Poe's "The Raven"

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:30:00 PDT

Here's your exclusive first look at a new Halloween treat from Quantum Mechanix. The collectables company got John De Lancie (Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation) to read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." Prepare to be chilled! More »

Why Jeffrey Combs is our ultimate avatar of sexy weirdness

Charlie Jane Anders — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:30:00 PDT

You're already a fan of Jeffrey Combs. Maybe you've seen him play a slew of all-too-human aliens on Star Trek, maybe you've watched him go too far in Re-Animator. But we bet you haven't seen all his great genre roles. More »

Edgar Allan Poe's Own Balloon Hoax May Have Inspired Jules Verne

Lauren Davis — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:21 PDT

Many were shocked when it was revealed that Falcon Heene's fictitious balloon ride was nothing more than a fame-grabbing hoax, but this is hardly the first time that a fake tale of a high-flying balloon captured people's imaginations. In 1844, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a detailed piece about famed balloonist Monck Mason's amazing journey across the Atlantic in a gas balloon. The remarkable trip, allegedly detailed in Mason's diary, took a mere 75 hours, an amazing feat of human engineering. The piece ran in the New York Sun, along with excerpts from the journal. More »

Special Effects Artist Creates Fake Poe Corpse, So We Can Bury Him Properly

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:20:00 PDT

Edgar Allan Poe's original funeral was a disaster — it was never announced publicly, almost nobody attended, and a trainwreck destroyed his tombstone before it could be placed. So on his 200th birthday, he's getting a do-over. More »

Poe's 200th Birthday Is Just As Weird As You'd Expect

Charlie Jane Anders — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:30:00 PST

Edgar Allan Poe's birthday is always cause for weirdness — like the strange black-clad figure who leaves roses and cognac at his tomb. But this year, he turns 200, and things are getting more intense. More »

Viggo Mortenson As The Father Of Science Fiction?

Kevin Kelly — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:30:37 PST

Sylvester Stallone wants Viggo Mortensen to pick up the pen and cavort with ravens in a film he's directing about the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Long known for his dark horror, fantasy and detective tales, Poe also created the first futuristic dystopia in fiction. More »