Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe Portrait

The famous American writer, poet, editor and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19th 1809 and sadly died just 40 years later on October 7th 1849. Poe is best known for his Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction and he is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. The master Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction writer was born in Boston, Massachusetts but was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. John and Frances Allan took Poe into their home in Richmond, Virginia but never formally adopted him. Before the Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction that we all know and love today, Poe’s publishing career started humbly with an anonymous collection of poems in 1827.

About Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction

Poe followed the line of horror, gothic fiction to appease the publics taste, most themes related to questions of death, including physical signs, effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, reanimation of the dead and mourning. Some call it dark romanticism but Poe did not like this association, he referred followers as ‘Frogpondians’ named after a pond on Boston Common.

Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction Works

Here’s some of the Edgar Allan Poe Horror Fiction tales and poems:

ò The Masque of the Red Death
ò The Murders in the Rue Morgue
ò The Premature Burial
ò The Haunted Palace