Edgar Allan Poe does not suffer from a shortage of biographers ... his striving for symmetry, was not merely an aesthetic conviction but the consequence of the way he thought the universe was put ...
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 ...
In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...