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 andhis new foster parent's did not care for the young, helpless boy at all. These arejust a few of the drastic events that happened in Edgar Allan's life and were thereason he started to take a negative view on life and the world surroundingit(Bloom,pg.233) . This negative attitude relayed into his stories and poetryresulting in some of the truest Gothic tales, characterized by the very darkimagery and overall dark mood, that have ever been written by any man tograze the face of the earth(Ingram,pg.22) . In Poe's fiction he handles themorbid and frightening aspects that he is so closely linked with. This is why hehas had such a great deal of influence on writers and the genre itself will neverbe 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 hadread his first Gothic tale at the age of eighteen. He told everyone he knew thathe would be a writer and as his life proceeded the Gothic genre fit Poe's style toa tee. It showed a side of literature that he could relate to and
No one could ever write with the certainedge and darkness that Poe could. It isapparent in the tale of "Siope" with its gothic background and its inarguableirony and "Psyche Zenobia" with its strange synthesis and intensity that Poe hassurely perfected the Gothic Tale(Ingram,pg. Certain authors, most importantlyDebussy, said that after reading tales from Poe's collection he was trulyterrified by the surroundings in which he was in and confessed himself"haunted" by the characters within Poe's stories and poems(Hoban,pg. dealt with all thethings in life that he knew. Edgar Allan Poe has been claimed the most controversial writer ever towalk the face of the earth and that will probably never change. This is why hehas had such a great deal of influence on writers and the genre itself will neverbe the same again due to the fact that he had such a large impact. Hooke who had also professed that he was being literally "haunted" byPoe's characters and was having reoccurring nightmares about the situationscontained in Poe's books. The elements ofscenery, setting, time, mood, the element of strange, the abnormal and weirdthat he singled out changed the Goth world forever and ever until thisday(Bloom,pg. He is drawn to a darkness thatis present in these works that is also unmistakable in such works as "The Fall ofthe House of Usher" where it is shown that there is a large amount of GothicInfluence along with his tremendous ability to manipulate his readers to picturethemselves in the actual surroundings(Hoban,pg. Blackwood's magazine, a gothic based authorsmagazine, cannot be overlooked or under-estimated as one of Edgar Allan Poe'sbiggest influences because it was a magazine that Poe followed very closely andit provided him with the theory behind a Gothic Tale and how to write on suchsubjects involving these theories in his writing(Bloom,pg. He was theepitome of the Gothic tale and turned into something alive and lasting eventhough he may be criticized for his tales and his personal life E.
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