THE FATHER OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES

Interesting Fact #2

Poe sat for his daguerreotype* 4 days after he attempted suicide.

*daguerreotype is an early photographic process with the image made on a light sensitive silver coated metallic plate.

#7 Creepiest Tale by E.A.P The Murders in

the Rue Morgue

#8 Creepiest Tale by Poe: The Black Cat

#9 Creepiest Tale by E.A.P

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.

Interesting Fact #3

Poe originally wanted to name his most well known story ( The Raven) ' The Parrot ' instead.

#6 Creepiest Tale by E.A.P The Cask of Amontillado.

#5 Creepiest Tale

The Masque of Red Death- Takes place in a castellated abbey where Prince Propspero and one thousand other nobles have taken refuge in order to avoid The Red Death.Which is a terrible plague with gruesome symptoms which has swept over the land.Prospero and his people are different as they intend to wait until the plague has finished whilst living in luxury. However it doesn’t have a very good result for the prince and the nobles in the end as the Red Death held ‘ illmittable dominion over all “

#4 Creepiest Tale

The Fall of the House of Usher- An anonymous narrator arrives at the home of a basket case called Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline. Roderick usher suffers from sensitivity to light and sound and Madeline suffers from a wasting disease and eventually dies and is buried in the family crypt. The anonymous narrator and Roderick, overtime hear screeching and crashing noises and we learn that Madeline did not die when she was buried and wants to take revenge on her brother, who then dies of fright. The narrator flees the house

Interesting Fact #4

#10 Creepiest Tale

of Edgar Allan Poe

He often wrote his stories with a cat on his shoulder, since he was obsessed with them. One of his stories is inspired by a black feline

Interesting Fact #1

He wrote one of his short stories on a 22-foot long scroll made of little pieces of paper attached by wax

Tamerlane and Other Poems is Edgar Allan Poe's first published work

BY SHARLENE AND HOPEFUL :)

Poe was nicknamed many things including ' The Father of Horror Stories ' because he greatly influenced the genre because no literary genre existed before he started writing them.

Also Oliver Wilde nicknamed Edgar the Lord of Romance, we don't know the reason for this.

His other name based on his hard criticisms of othe peoples work was, Tomahawk Man

Edgar Allan Poe's best known works were gothic. Many of his works are of the dark romanticism genre. Although he's best known works were for his science fiction and mystery stories.

When " Poe " is mentioned the images that come to mind are ' of murderes and madmen, premature burials and mysterious women who return from the dead.

He is seen as a morbid mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles much like the characters in his stories.

#3 Creepiest Tale By E.A.P The Tale Tell Heart By E.A.P

EDGAR ALLAN POE.

January 19 ,1809 - October 7,1849

Boston Massachusettes, USA - Baltimore.Maryland, USA

Here we follow a narrator trying to prove his sanity to himself after murdering his elderly roomate. Driven mad by the old man’s “vulture-like” eye, the narrator slays him in his bed and hides the dismembered corpse beneath the floorboards. When the police show up to question him, the narrator finds himself at the mercy of his heightened senses. He begins to hear a steadily-increasing heartbeat coming from the floor. Sure that the police must hear it too (they don’t), he confesses to the crime.

AN AMERICAN AUTHOR,

POET, EDITOR

AND LITERARY CRITIC.

THE FATHER OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES

Interesting Fact #5

An episode of the Simpsons ' Treehouse of Horror ' was based on Edgar Allan Poe's most famous story,the Raven

#1 Creepiest Tale By E.A.P

The Raven

#2 Creepiest Tale By E.A.P The Pit and the Pendulum

This is Poe’s most famous piece of work. In the story he tells a story of a grieving lover who is visited by a talking Raven on a cold winter’s night. The Raven repeats the word ‘ Nevermore ‘ and the narrator wonders the purpose of this. He is overcome with memories of his lover and as he believes the Raven is a messenger from the next world he asks if him and his lover will be in Heaven together in which the Raven replies ‘ Nevermore ‘. The poem tells us of the madness and despair of the narrator as the Raven torments him with his call.

This story follows the horrors endured by a prisoner of the Spanish inquisition. The protagonist is guilty of an unknown crime and is placed through heavy torture. He discovers that he is strapped to a platform above which swings an slowly dropping pendulum blade.However he is saved by an unlikely rescue