The Complete Stories — Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabreâ€"his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingsâ€"was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representâ€"in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanâ€"the other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.

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