Edgar Allan Poe, is the author of terrorsome short stories such as: 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Masque of the Red Death,' 'The Pit and the Pendulum,' 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' 'The Black Cat,' 'The Premature Burial,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' 'The Cask of Amontillado,' and 'Hop-Frog'. Poe earned his place as a major figure in Literature for his tales of the bizarre and …showed first 75 words of 2578 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2578 total…realism in the annals of literary horror' (Lovecraft 2752). It is possible that Poe is very popular now and in his time because he chose to look at the dark side in all of us. Especially during Romanticism, he chose to differ from the imagined perfect world and look at life from a different perspective than they were used to. The gruesome plots, suffering protagonists, and Gothic settings stem from Poe's own fears, dreams and fantasies.