My Favorite Edgar Allan Poe Stories

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Edgar Allan Poe will always be one of my favorite American writers, and not simply because he has a penchant for the grotesque. Poe had an incredibly rich way of storytelling, of shaping the language to meet his vision. Calling it “horror” doesn’t do his work justice; Poe was a poet at heart and he wrote works of literature enshrined in mystery, driven by the depth and intensity of human emotions — everything from sorrow to…