You are journalists travelling aboard a time machine to nineteenth-century Boston. You have been charged with an important mission by the literary magazine board where you work. You are expected to meet the famous American fiction and verse writer Edgar Allan Poe and find as much as possible about his life, personal recollections and literary career. By the end of this webquest you are required to prepare an oral presentation about Poe's life and works for the classmates and to hand in the answers to a battery of questions about "Berenice".