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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) is an American writer and poet, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who is considered the founder of the detective, science fiction, and horror genres. However, the most famous works of Edgar Allan Poe are the stories and poems written in the so-called Gothic genre, a mixture of romanticism, mysticism and horror. It is to Edgar Allan Poe that we owe the bringing of bizarre prose in all its diversity to a radically different aesthetic level, and it is his work that has had a significant impact on many writers, poets, musicians and artists, and another famous representative of the literature of the bizarre and otherworldly, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, called Poe his literary mentor, without whom most of his works would not have been possible.

Edgar Poe's stories are based on mysterious, mystical and unusual events that are beyond the scope of ordinary life experiences, he is interested in the theme of death, its mystery and fundamental unknowability, as well as the mournful and tragic moods inherent in the Romanticism. Despite the fact that during his lifetime Poe was better known as a literary critic, he entered the world literary canon as a singer of the mysterious, otherworldly, romantic and tragic.

The first volume of the complete prose collection of the cult American classic of gothic and bizarre literature Edgar Allan Poe includes works written in the period of 1832-1838 - from the very first story in the horror genre, "Metzengerstein", and up to the famous classics;The Manuscript Found in a Bottle, Berenice, The Incomparable Adventure of a Certain Hans Pfaal, King Plague, and the most mysterious stories of the genre;as well as his most mysterious work, the interpretation of which is still being worked on by researchers of the writer's work - the novel The Tale of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.