Edgar Allan Poe was a man with very few things headed in the right
             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 dealt with all the
             things in life that he knew. By the early nineteenth century the all had grown to
             love the Gothic tale and Poe had many dreams of writing in the Gothic fashion
             because of it's cunning nature. 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.122) . Another one of
             Edgar Allan Poe's larger influences were all the Gothic writers in Eu...