Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

No one knows for certain what happened during Edgar Allan Poe’s final days on Earth, other than that the 40-year-old author of grisly tales and romantic poetry was found in October 1849 in Baltimore, ...

Once upon a midnight dreary... We finally have our first "action shot" look at John Cusack as poet Edgar Allan Poe in the new movie from James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) titled The ...

He’s been dubbed the “archpriest of the gothic horror tale,” although Edgar Allan Poe wanted to be remembered as a great poet. His strange death at age 40, on Oct. 7, 1849, has only added to the ...

Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe meets “Se7en” in “The Raven,” a serial killer thriller set in 1849 Baltimore and conspicuously lacking mystery, suspense and poetry. Quoth “The Raven,” this is a bore.

Only a few seconds have passed in The Raven before that familiar shot of a quill pen at work is interrupted by the arrival of a police inspector. Edgar Allan Poe puts pen to paper twice in James ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary... James McTeigue is still one of my favorite directors. He started work as the first AD for the Wachowski's on all three Matrix movies ...

Hilary Remley is a News Writer at Collider. She is a recent graduate of SUNY Albany. Shudder has just released a haunting new trailer for Raven's Hollow ahead of its premiere at UK's FrightFest on ...

John Cusack says Edgar Allan Poe was something of a rock star in his day. Cusack is playing the writer in "The Raven," which filmmakers previewed Friday for fans at Comic-Con. It is set for release ...