1. Poe and the Importance of the Crime Scene
Edgar Allan Poe was known to the world for his horrific, jaw dropping short stories and poems and also for being a literary genius of his time due to the unfamiliar writing style he presented. Though well known for works such as: Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, Poe is also recognized as being the creator of Gothic writing. ... Arthur Conan Doyle says "Each [of Poe's detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature has developed, where the detective story was until Poe breathed the breath of life into it?... In order to create the hor...
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