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Edgar Allan Poe

Countless school children have recited the opening line of Poe's The Raven: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." But Poe is valued not only for his poetry. He was also a prolific writer of short stories, the creator of two literary forms that readers everywhere enjoy—the detective story and the horror thriller.

Subject
biography
Genre
horror
Setting
19th century
Audience
adult
Length
short · 144 pages

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