Short Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the primary figures of American nineteenth-century literature. His writing was heavily influenced by Romanticism ideals of emotion and feeling, and although mostly known for his Gothic-tinged horror, his tales jump between many different genres, including science-fiction, satire, humor, mystery, and even early detective fiction. Poe mostly wrote short stories and poems , published in magazines and periodicals like the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham’s Magazine , although he also turned his hand to essays and novels (including The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym