Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer, poet, essayist, playwright, literary editor and critic, one of the leading representatives of American romanticism. He is best known for his macabre and mystical stories. Edgar Poe was one of the first American professionals of the short story and the founder of the detective story. Honored for his contribution to the birth of the science fiction genre. He was the first famous American writer who tried to earn exclusively from creativity, so during his life Poe suffered from financial hardship, because his works were not adequately appreciated by his contemporaries. It is to Edgar Allan Poe that we owe the introduction of whimsical prose in all its variety to a radically different aesthetic level, and it was his work that significantly influenced many writers, poets, musicians and artists, and another famous representative of the literature of the whimsical and otherworldly, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, called By his literary mentor, without whom most of his works would not exist. Content: Murders in the Rue Morgue Golden beetle Barrel of Amontillado A black cat The Fall of the House of Usher A manuscript found in a bottle The facts of Mr. Voldemar's case The story of the Rocky Mountains A man of the crowd The pit and the pendulum