Frightening, mysterious, e.g. The Fall of the house of Usher, or The Pit and the Pendulum.
Poetic poems and stories.
Both Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce write excellent short stories with unexpected endings. For a special story with an unexpected ending, read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
No, 'The Best of Simple' is a collection of stories by Langston Hughes.
Yes, Edgar Allan Poe wrote various short stories and literary criticism in addition to his poetry. Some of his most famous works include "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Raven."
If you want to see how he didn't write his stories read his essay The Philosophy of Composition. There is no way to truly know how he wrote but this explains clearly how he didn't.
Yes, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a few plays in addition to his famous short stories and poems. Some of his theatrical works include "Politian" and "The Masque of the Red Death." However, Poe is primarily known for his contributions to the genres of horror and mystery fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe was noted mainly for his short stories and poems, although he did write several plays. Most often, when we think of EAP, we think about his dark personality, and the horror that he was able to convey through his stories and poems. One of his most popular poems was 'The Raven'. Also, he was known as one of the very first truly American writers, and the founder of the Science Fiction and Mystery genres.
well he starded righting poems when he was 20. so that means to 20 and untill he died.
It's not a poem, it's a short story. He wrote it in 1843.
The Raven
1831
Poe created the archetypal pattern for stories of detection...These patterns included...an inexplicable crimean intellectual and almost "omniscient" sleuthsolution of the mystery with "superior logical reasoning," and,the apprehension of an equally brilliant arch-villain