Edgar Allen Poe's works are known as mysterious and haunting with a blend of factual and fantastic materials and with vivid and imaginative vocabulary. Him and his stories are stereotyped as gruesome and morbid because of his numerous stories dealing with loneliness, death, and mysterious aura.
             These elements are evident in many of Poe's works. Such works are "The Raven",
             "Lenore", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Fall of the House of Usher", and many others. "The Raven" is a story about the narrator who is overwhelmed by melancholy and omens of death, showing the loneliness that can be found in Poe's stories. "Lenore" is about a beautiful young woman and her death, and "The Cask of Amontillado" is a haunting tale of revenge and deceit. These two stories portray his fascination with death and his morbid ways of thinking. "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a gloomy story of the destruction of a man, his family, and his estate, showing where Poe uses gloominess in the atmosphere to enhance the gloominess in the plot.
             Through these stories and his numerous other works Poe has established an eternal name for himself and for the type of writing he did. He is known worldwide for his gloomy, morbid, and haunting tales of facts and fantasy.
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