his volume presents recent critical work on Edgar Allan Poe andpsychology. It began in 2012 after careful consideration of whatwas lacking in Poe scholarship. Upon months of combing througharchives at McGill University, Concordia University, as well asJSTOR I discovered that nothing on Edgar Allan Poe and psychol-ogy had come around in many years. After more considerationI posted a Call for Papers and received at least thirty responsesfrom scholars from all areas of the world. Finally, in August 2018I made a selection of the six manuscripts which reflect the currentattitudes toward Poe’s work and psychology.In the first chapter, Karen J. Renner examines how Edgar AllanPoe’s fictional confessions of murderers and his detective storiesprovided models for both the serial killer and the profiler respec-tively.