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This book contains tales and poems by Edgar Allan Poe that became innovative literary discoveries at the time and extremely popular in its genre: The Fall of the House Usher, The Gold-Bug, the poem The Raven. Edgar Poe was one of the first American writers who wrote mostly novellas. Within twenty years, Edgar Poe created two short novels, two poems, one play, about seventy stories, fifty poems and ten essays that were published in magazines and almanacs and then collected in books.

Edgar Poe was highly regarded by Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle and Howard Phillips Lovecraft who acknowledged his pioneering role in the genres they were popularising. In his thriller stories, Poe tries to show the psychic side of the crime from the inside. He is not interested in the social roots of the crime, but in unmotivated actions that go beyond the normal behaviour of a person in society. Nevertheless, in a series of stories while describing the acts committed by characters under the influence of a “contradiction demon” or “perversion demon”, Poe puts in rational reasons. For example, the character from the story The Black Cat realises that his brain is poisoned with alcohol, and as a result his mental health and temper have been injured. But this reasoning is too plain and trivial for a thriller.

Narrating on behalf of the criminal, Poe brings actions under the control of a contradictory demon. The combination of plans gives volume to the stories the events are at once rational and not, motivated and incredibly paradoxical.

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