Edgar Allan Poe and his Tales of Horror

Many questions are asked when it comes to the way Edgar Allen Poe wrote and why he wrote the way he did. Edgar Allen Poe's Writing was fascinating because he wrote with emotion that is different from most writers. Many would say his writing is pessimistic and depressing but when you look at it differently it is written with intent, poise, advanced use of his grammatical language. It was written in many ways that are taken as pessimistic but in a different light, it is written in an emotional but respected way. In a way, Edgar Allan Poe uses his life as a guide to write his stories with emotion.

Aside from a common theoretic basis, there is a psychological intensity that is the characteristic of Poe's writings. Specially the tales of horror that comprise his best-known works. Adding to his achievement as creator of the modern horror tale, Poe was also credited with inventing two other popular genres: science fiction and the detective story. These story such as The Black Cat, are often told by a first-person narrator, and through this voice Poe shows the workings of a characters mental state. Similarly, Poe is recognized writing the models, which established the major characters and literary writings of detective fiction.

In his Gothic tales, Poe also employed an essentially symbolic, almost allegorical method, which gives such works an baffling quality that accounts for their enduring interest and alongside with the symbolical works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. This technique foreshadows the psychological explorations that Poe had himself in a way. In his use of the satanic relations and the twisted ways of his writings.

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