Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best recognized for his poetry and short stories, mainly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.

Some of his famous short stories are “The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Purloined Letter", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The fall of house of Usher", "The Gold Bug" and many others.

Poe’s stories are full of gothic elements. Poe represents the psychological complexities in his works.

His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning.

Poe had a keen interest in cryptography, which can be seen in his stories like “The Gold Bug” and “The Purloined Letter”.

All his stories have mostly an unnamed narrator. The story moves in a sequence. First the crime happens and then it is been told how it is done.

In the “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator kills and old man just because of his vulture eye. In the “The cask of Amontillado”, we see how a friend takes a revenge.

All his stories brings out the deep dangerous human tendencies.

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