"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." Living a life of utter misery, enduring his parents' death at an early age, numerous love affairs shattered and torn, and maintaining no substantial and consistent income, Edgar Allan Poe committed his life to writing. While everyone else was not paying him much attention, Poe continued to write new, provocative and different pieces than what the public and literary elite was used to. Synthesizing the macabre of the Gothic tale with the personal will to power of the emotive Romanticist movement, we are delighted by a blend of prose and verse talent that can be best described as the dark Romanticism that this American poet creatively spawned.

Our creative contributor Joel Meyer has done it again, this time an engaging, in-depth literary study into the genius mind of American Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. Read about the man that evolved the Romantic poetic style, fulfilled the Gothic genre, fused mysticism and occult science with modern psychology, invented the stroll/gadabout novel and basically created the modern crime novel as we know it. We're ever grateful to Mr. Meyer and proud to present yet another brilliant addition to our celebrated profile-section.

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