Gothic horror

direction 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

. . .
No one could ever write with the certain

edge and darkness that Poe could. It is

apparent in the tale of “Siope” with its gothic background and its inarguable

irony and “Psyche Zenobia” with its strange synthesis and intensity that Poe has

surely perfected the Gothic Tale(Ingram,pg. Certain authors, most importantly

Debussy, said that after reading tales from Poe’s collection he was truly

terrified 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 the

things in life that he knew.

Edgar Allan Poe has been claimed the most controversial writer ever to

walk the face of the earth and that will probably never change. 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. Hooke who had also professed that he was being literally “haunted” by

Poe’s characters and was having reoccurring nightmares about the situations

contained in Poe’s books. The elements of

scenery, setting, time, mood, the element of strange, the abnormal and weird

that he singled out changed the Goth world forever and ever until this

day(Bloom,pg. He is drawn to a darkness that

is present in these works that is also unmistakable in such works as “The Fall of

the House of Usher” where it is shown that there is a large amount of Gothic

Influence along with his tremendous ability to manipulate his readers to picture

themselves in the actual surroundings(Hoban,pg. Blackwood’s magazine, a gothic based authors

magazine, cannot be overlooked or under-estimated as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s

biggest influences because it was a magazine that Poe followed very closely and

it provided him with the theory behind a Gothic Tale and how to write on such

subjects involving these theories in his writing(Bloom,pg. He was the

epitome of the Gothic tale and turned into something alive and lasting even

though he may be criticized for his tales and his personal life E.

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