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 ...

If Edgar Allen Poe was still celebrating birthdays, the dude would have a cake with a bunch of candles on Sunday at the same time a Baltimore institution named for one of his works will be playing ...

The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.