Joaquin Phoenix shocked the movie world with his retirement from acting last year. Could he return to the big screen as Edgar Allan Poe for "The Beautiful Cigar Girl?"

Inspired casting choice, if it's true! Joaquin Phoenix is reportedly returning to the silver screen as Edgar Allan Poe after not having acted for quite some time sporting his nasty facial hair and giving bizarre interviews! Slumdog ...

Joaquin Phoenix famously 'retired' from acting a year ago (after finishing Two Lovers) to start some sort of career as a rap MC which may or may not be fodder for a documentary or other film product of sorts involving Casey Affleck....

Boing Boing readers are interested in Edgar Allan Poe (examples 1, 2, 3, and 4), so I suspect you'll want to be the first to know about 4 by Poe, an upcoming collection of four Poe stories designed and illustrated by Eric Mongeon. M...

Last fall, writer Abigail Deutsch peered over a Baltimore coffin to look at the pale corpse of Edgar Allan Poe.

Sure he starred in 28 Weeks Later, but it wasn't until The Hurt Locker's success that star Jeremy Renner got the street cred he deserved. The NY Times is reporting that Renner will topline the indie period thriller The Raven alongs...

A scene from "The Tell Tale Heart," as it appears in the "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe." Photo courtesy Center for Puppetry Arts. Oh, the romance of live theater! My Valentine and I caught  a performance of “Tales of Edgar Allan Poe” at...

The Australian crime-fiction writer Malla Nunn has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel for her first novel, A Beautiful Place to Die, set in South Africa. Nunn, who was born ...

The curators of "The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston," on display now at the Boston Public Library, will lead tours of the exhibit on Thursday, 4 February at 6 p.m. and Saturday 13 February at 3 p.m. (...

1) Tales of Edgar Allan Poe continues at the Center for Puppetry Arts.

BARCELONA.- With source material deriving from Georg Büchner, Sigmund Freud, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, the Grimm brothers, Richard Wagner, Stéphane Mallarmé and Picasso, among many others, Rodney Graham (1949, Abbotsford, Ca...

The year was 1983, the occasion a "Magical Musical Halloween." [MetaFilter] Filed Under: books, clickables, edgar allan poe, tv, video, william shatner ...

Molly recounts the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Assets: Edgar Allen Poe’s Birth Home, Poe, Old Photo of Poe, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Elizabeth “Eliza” Arnold Poe, Portrait of John Allen, Cover: First Edition of Tamerlane, Tales of the...

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” is 165 years old this week. That’s not bad for a bird with a life expectancy of 40 years (that’s in captivity, if you’re interested – 15 years is the longest a tagged raven has ever lived in the wild). ...

“Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867): Booze, Opium; Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849): Alcohol, Opiates; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861): Opium; Stephen King (1947 – present): Booze, Cocaine, Prescription Meds; Dorothy Parker (189...

Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor left roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Edgar Allen Poe's grave on the writer's birthday. This year, no one showed.

DALLAS, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ — The creator of such popular video games as “Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy,” “Luxor Adventures,” and “Samantha Swift and the Mystery from Atlantis,” has won a legal battle against i...

Well that's kind of sad.It is what Edgar Allan Poe might have called "a mystery all insoluble": Every year for the past six decades, a shadowy visitor would leave roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on Poe's grave on the anniver...

Today: fat people in planes, Edgar Allan Poe and a new use for duct tape. Meanwhile, over in the #crosstalk open forum you missed the opportunity to chat about babies in bars with me and balls with Foster. Claire Buoyant notes that...

Today in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born. As a poet of the macabre, Poe has left a lasting mark on American letters, most famously with The Raven, one poem which most of us know, despite most of us not being huge poetry fans. Today ...