Sometimes, Poe’s humor escaped quite a few readers, but since he was the publisher of the magazine in which most of his work appeared, his humorous stories were published, anyway (thank goodness!) — Copyright by Gary Lee Pullman As his satirical short stories indicate, Edgar Allan Poe has a decidedly peculiar sense of humor. His lampoons invariably feature grotesque characters whose actions suggest humorous, if not charitable, interpretations of the characters themselves.
