Who Wrote It: Edgar Allan Poe or Emo Band?
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was never one for a happy ending. The celebrated writer of stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the classic poem “The Raven” specialized ...
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The birth of the Gothic aesthetic
The Gothic aesthetic gained literary prominence in ... Writers like Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker (Dracula) further enriched the genre, intertwining horror with ...
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Edgar Allan Poe, Detective Fiction, and the Parkman Murder
Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...