Within Edger Allan Poe's short lifespan, he composed fantastic novels defining the basis for the gothic horror story. In the "Cask of Amontillado" and "The Raven", the Gothic setting is meticulously described, painting a very detailed picture. The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" , felt, in his morality, that the old man must be killed to stop the hideous heartbeat and the evil eye, and in "The Masque of the Red Death", that Prince Prospero must be killed to stop the death of his people. . The supernatural connection between Roderick and the Usher Household, in "The Fall of the House of Usher", and the raven in "The Raven", eerily adds to the gothic design. His works prove to the world why he is the "godfather" of the gothic short story.
             In the "Cask of Amontillado" and "The Raven", the Gothic image is well illuminated. The description of the Montresors' catacombs as murky and damp intensifies the horrific sense in the reader. "We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors," and, "...but observe the white webwork which gleams from these cavern walls.", add to the Gothic feel. The entire journey is under Montresor's torchlight near midnight, thus even more frightening Fortunato and the reader. At the end of the catacombs, there was a small recessed area in the wall, and the area in front of this wall was strewn with human remains. "Its walls had been lined with human remains piled to the vault overhead , in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris." This recess, even darker than the original passage, intrigued Fortunato. In "The Raven", the narrator describes the setting as a dark cold midnight, adding to the Gothic feel. "Once upon a midnight dreary... Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December.&q...