Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most famous writers of our time. He has a way of writing that is unlike any other author. His stories are truly unique in each and every way. The main topics that repeat in all of Poe's stories are irony, horror, and sadness. It is very interesting how one mad could write so may sad, off the wall stories, but if you took a look at his life you may then understand. Edgar lives a very hard life both his parents were killed as well as his very young life. Poe may have based his stories on experiences that had happened to him. Many of them mirror his life. In his unique writing style he often includes many noises of sounds. These little details of sounds add great effect to the story, providing another dement ion to the mood of the story.
             In the story "The Cast of Amontillado" Poe writes, "I heard a slight groan, and knew it was the groan of mortal terror". By including this sound it makes the reader become more imaginative, and as they read the story it help to give the effect that the reader is really there. From reading this line the reader gets to become inventive and imagine the sound which every way they wish, by doing this they become part of the story instead of the reader. Another line from the same story goes " a succession of loud screams..." In context the reader knows the screams are coming from the chained man behind the wall. The reading can imagine how awful a sound it was, from a man who is terrified; the reader can really imagine what the character is feeling. "Ha! ha! ha!- he! he!" was also another sound effect in this story, as well as many of the other Poe stories I have read. The laughter of his character most often happens after they had committed a dreadful act, this expresses to the reader of how evil a laugh it must have been.
             Another story I will discuss is "Hop Frog" Poe wrote "
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