Gothic horror
Edgar Allan Poe was a man with very few things headed in the rightdirection in his life. His parent's divorced when he was just three years old and his new foster parent's did not care for the young, helpless boy at all. These are just a few of the drastic events that happened in Edgar Allan's life and were the reason he started to take a negative view on life and the world surrounding it(Bloom,pg.233) . This negative attitude relayed into his stories and poetry resulting in some of the truest Gothic tales, characterized by the very dark imagery and overall dark mood, that have ever been written by any man to graze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe's fiction he handles the morbid and frightening aspects that he is so closely linked with. This is why he has had such a great deal of influence on writers and the genre itself will never be the same again due to the fact that he had such a large impact. Edgar Allan Poe was drastically drawn to the genre ever since he had read his first Gothic tale at the age of eighteen. He told everyone he knew that he would be a writer and as his life proceeded the Gothic genre fit Poe's style to a tee. It showed a side of literature that he could relate to and
Debussy, said that after reading tales from Poe's collection he was truly scenery, setting, time, mood, the element of strange, the abnormal and weird it provided him with the theory behind a Gothic Tale and how to write on such description of mental states and dark surroundings all relate to him personally at graze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe's fiction he handles the
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