Edgar Allen Poe, the writer of terrorsome short stories
Edgar Allan Poe, is the author of terrorsome short stories such as: 'The Fall of
the House of Usher,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'The
Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Black Cat,' 'The Premature Burial,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,'
'The Cask of Amontillado,' and 'Hop-Frog'. Poe earned his place as a major figure in
Literature for his tales of the bizarre and …
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…realism in the annals of literary horror'
(Lovecraft 2752). It is possible that Poe is very popular now and in his time because he
chose to look at the dark side in all of us. Especially during Romanticism, he chose to
differ from the imagined perfect world and look at life from a different perspective than
they were used to. The gruesome plots, suffering protagonists, and Gothic settings stem
from Poe's own fears, dreams and fantasies.
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