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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American horror stories writer, poet, critic and editor who was born in january 19, 1808 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also known by the nickname of: Father of the Detective story. Allan Poe became famouous thanks to his dark, mysterious and evocative short stories and poems; some of them are now literary clasics.

He married his cousin Virginia when she was 13, in 1836; but she passed away in 1847, after she became sick of tuberculosis. He died in 1949 in a great distress and, although nobody certainly knows what was the causer of it, there are lots of theories.

Some of his most well known writtings are:

Short stories: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart.

Poems: The Raven and Annabel Lee.

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