Horror Story” Edgar Allan Poe, the most well-known and popular American writer to live, is famous for writing horror stories that install fear and excitement into the minds of the readers. Many of his stories consist of “narrators who have committed some horrible crime, such as horror, or who reveal some terrible secret about taboo subjects, such as incest or necrophilia” (133). Through this horrific acts and unexpected plot twists, Poe aims to surprise and excite his readers. His stories usually…
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