Those legends abound, and they are apocryphally. Poe likely died of rabies. Poe had been seen in a bar on Lombard Street disheveled but it is well established that he died in the hospital.
Answer Poe's Death Theories. His cause of death was ascribed to "congestion of the brain .". No autopsy was performed, and the author was buried two days later. In dying under such mysterious circumstances, the father of the detective story has left us with a real-life mystery which Poe scholars, medical professionals, and others have been trying to solve for over 150 years.:
