![]() ![]() It proves, at least to me, that Poe was first and foremost a poet, even in prose. While I mostly enjoyed Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, I couldn’t help but feel that I was reading poetry at times. There’s rhythm to his work, there’s power, suspense, and emotion, something you can truly feel and hear when you read his works out loud or listen to them. Reading his stories out loud made me recognize the mastery he held over the craft. Once I got used to it though, there was something special about Edgar Allan Poe’s style. He’s painting detailed pictures, not only of what his characters see, but what they feel and experience. His writing is often very imaginative, relying more on mood and atmosphere. As a non-native speaker, his often verbose and poetic style was tough to get into. When I first started to read Edgar Allan Poe’s works, I needed some time to get used to them. ![]() Instead, I was treated to tales of gripping psychological horror, of sick minds, and the terrible deeds they committed. Instead, I was treated to tales of unreliable narrators, characters who are mentally ill and suffer from various ailments, fears, and addictions. I’d imagined him to be a writer of ghost stories and of creepy tales in which people are stalked by dark things and terrible creatures. Reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe differed from what I expected. Want to know more about Edgar Allan Poe and his life? Check out the Writers Mythos and their episode on Edgar Allan Poe. It’s no understatement to say that the literary world we know today might be very different without him. Wells, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Herman Melville, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. The list of writers Edgar Allan Poe influenced is long and extensive, including Charles Baudelaire, H. He didn’t just set new standards he changed the entire course of literature.Įdgar Allan Poe is hailed as the father of the modern detective story, the psychological horror genre, but he was also highly influential in such genres as science-fiction and adventure. It’s not wrong to say he was a pioneer in many ways. There are few writers as influential as Edgar Allan Poe on the horror genre and the American literary tradition in general. That’s why I spent the last months reading almost all of his works. Yet, it was mostly because of pop-culture references and from the influence he had on other writers and horror literature in general. Edgar Allan Poe was a writer whose stories I was well familiar with. ![]()
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