... when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death."69 With The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain tells the story of a "white trash" boy, a runaway slave, and their escape to freedom. This may not sound like a novel having anything to do with the supernatural, but ... where Hawthorne [and] Irving would have shrunk back disgusted," Poe plunges ahead, writing stories and poems such as "The Fall of the House of Usher", "Ligeia", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Raven."...

• Word Count: 3126
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School