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  2. Berenice (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Berenice" is a short horror story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1835. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He tends to fall into periods of intense focus, during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world.

  3. Edgar Allan Poe bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel.His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing. [1]

  4. American Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe in The Pioneer edited by James Russell Lowell, 1843.Early American Gothic writers were particularly concerned with frontier wilderness anxiety and the lasting effects of a Puritanical society.

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    This 1959 gothic novel, ... "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. If you skipped this one in high school because you were an angsty teen who hated being told what to do, I highly ...

  6. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The most influential Gothic writer from this period was the American Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote numerous short stories and poems reinterpreting Gothic tropes. His story "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) revisits classic Gothic tropes of aristocratic decay, death, and insanity. [59] Poe is now considered the master of the American Gothic. [1]

  7. Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre.

  8. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - Wikipedia

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    These art styles are known for their complex nature. Poe had used the term "arabesque" in this sense in his essay "The Philosophy of Furniture". [6] Poe may have been using these terms as subdivisions of Gothic art or Gothic architecture in an attempt to establish similar subdivisions in Gothic fiction.

  9. The Tell-Tale Heart - Wikipedia

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    "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories. The specific motivation for murder, aside from the narrator's hatred of the old man's eye, the relationship between narrator and old man, the gender of the narrator, and other details are left unclear.