Writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic. Known for poetry and short stories, particularly tales of mystery and the macabre. Central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fictio...
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Writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic. Known for poetry and short stories, particularly tales of mystery and the macabre. Central figure of Romanticism and Gothic fiction in the United States. Inventor of the detective fiction genre and a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
