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Edgar Allan Poe spent his last night calling one name: Reynolds. Nobody at his bedside knew who it was. Here are the eight best answers, from a polar explorer to his own alias.

Edgar Allan Poe dared America to send him a cipher he couldn't crack. Seven facts about his codebreaking career, from puzzles that took 150 years to solve to the reader who broke codes in two world wars.

Poe's only completed novel ends with a giant white figure rising from the sea near the South Pole. Seven answers to the ending, including the two that Jules Verne and H. P. Lovecraft wrote as novels.

Mary Rogers left home in New York on July 25, 1841, and was found dead in the Hudson three days later. Seven documented facts about the case and how Poe rewrote it as "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."

In 1836 Poe argued that a famous chess-playing automaton hid a human player. Seven facts about "Maelzel's Chess-Player," what Poe got right, and what he missed.