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'''Edgar Allan Poe''' is a famous American [[author]], [[poet]] and editor known for his dark and morbid themes. Among his most famous works are "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart".
'''Edgar Allan Poe''' (1809-1849) was an American [[poet]], editor and [[author]] of short shories, most famous for his dark and morbid themes, although he also wrote some lesser known light-hearted works. Among his most famous and haunting works were "The Raven" (1845) and "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843).
== Life ==
== Life ==
But because of his use of imagination and his diving into the grotesque, the absurd, and darkness of dreams, he is linked with the creation of the surrealism movement and, from his staunch ideas on writing, inspired whole new genres to acquire the fame and fortune that eluded him. The famous pseudo-science fiction writer [[Jules Verne]] lists Poe as his main inspiration, as have other foreign writers, including [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Franz Kafka]], and the contemporary author [[Carlos Fuentes]]. As American author Joyce Carol Oates put it, "Who has not been influenced by Poe?"<ref> [http://news.research.ohiou.edu/perspectives/archives/9902/poe_main.htm A Writer of Influence]</ref>
But because of his use of imagination and his diving into the grotesque, the absurd, and darkness of dreams, he is linked with the creation of the surrealism movement and, from his staunch ideas on writing, inspired whole new genres to acquire the fame and fortune that eluded him. The famous pseudo-science fiction writer [[Jules Verne]] lists Poe as his main inspiration, as have other foreign writers, including [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Franz Kafka]], and the contemporary author [[Carlos Fuentes]]. As American author Joyce Carol Oates put it, "Who has not been influenced by Poe?"<ref> [http://news.research.ohiou.edu/perspectives/archives/9902/poe_main.htm A Writer of Influence]</ref>
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His short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), and its sequels, are considered to be the first detective stories,<ref>[http://www.classiccrimefiction.com/historydf.htm Origins of Detective Fiction]</ref> and were a major influence on [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories.
"The Gold-Bug" (1843) is an imaginative tale which gives an example of elementary [[cryptanalysis]] (code-breaking), as well as being one of the earliest examples of [[pirate]]-related fiction, forty years before [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] popularised the genre with ''[[Treasure Island]]''.
==Works==
==Works==