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Author: (USA) Allan Edgar Poe Translator: Reg Co-author: (UK) Margarel Naudi Allan Edgar Poe (1809-1849), a famous American novelist, poet, and critic in the 19th century. He was born into a family of wandering performers in Boston, and at the age of 3, his mother passed away. He was taken in by a wealthy merchant, John Allan, and received a good education. At the age of 17, he entered the University of Virginia but dropped out due to alcohol abuse. At 21, he entered West Point Military Academy for further study but was dismissed for neglecting his duties. He then began his writing career. He wrote poetry, novels, and literary criticism, and later found that gothic horror stories were very popular, so he turned to writing horror stories and achieved considerable success. In 1835, Poe married his cousin, but his wife passed away due to illness more than ten years later, leading him to drown his sorrows in alcohol. In 1849, he ended his life in a thorough drunken state in Baltimore. Poe produced around sixty to seventy short stories in his lifetime and advocated the motto "art for art's sake." His creative theory and practice were the precursor of Western modernism and had a profound impact on the development of Western modernist poetry and fiction. He is also known as the "founder of detective fiction" and the "father of horror stories." Initially, I thought this book was a collection of multiple mysterious and fantastical stories, but it turned out to be in the style of horror stories.