Edgar Allen Poe

In most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories there seems to always be a sense of creepiness, eeriness, and a slight taste of what is going to happen next also known as suspense. In most of his stories there seems to always be some beautiful woman dying or on her death bed, for instance, "The Fall of The House of Usher" where the beautiful Lady Madeline seems to have died but then later comes back to life with a need to kill her brother whom she was "married" to. Now as poetic as that may seem to be I would like for you to think about this for a second back then it was normal for royalties to marry within the family so their blood line was not "tampered" or "tainted" with other commoners blood, if this was so normal then why does she wish to kill her beloved brother as if she were a knight and he a dragon? Well if we really think about it most of the symbols for royalty was either a dragon or a unicorn of some sort, sometimes there were both unicorn and a dragon with the look of being ready to fight it out.

Now imagine "Tell-Tale Heart" where the creepiness comes into play. A man with a dead beady eye, which the narrator believed wanted to kill him, was staying in his home with him but the narrator sees him as a threat. So while the old man sleeps he goes and checks in on him throughout several nights and on the last night, the seventh night, the old man wakes form his sleep and then and only then does the narrator strikes and kills the man.  That is not all later on the police shows up and questions him about the scream that the old man let out before he departed from the world.

 The majority of Poe’s stories have death and or destruction in them which thrills his audience to the point of which they want more but by the time people truly started to recognize his work he was well into madness and was truly done with writing his stories.