Miskatonic Arcihves

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, fiction writer, editor and critic whose work became a central precedent for Lovecraft’s understanding of literary horror. His importance includes narrative construction, unstable testimony, the relationship between beauty and terror, and the transformation of familiar settings into instruments of dread. He belongs to the tradition’s ancestry, decades before the Lovecraft circle.

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