Jun 3, 2022
3 min read
Edgar Allan Poe’s Mysterious Life
Edgar Allan Poe was master of the macabre. His gothic stories dealt with death, decomposition, reanimation and premature burial. He was the inventor of the detective fiction genre, an early contributor to the science fiction genre and one of the first American authors to make a living strictly from writing.
Poe was born in 1809 in Boston. His mom died shortly after his birth and his father abandoned the family. He was taken in…
