Darkness and the Macabre is what were all into...

[infernal_dream]

Hello fellow readers and opinioners...im a 15 year old girl from Texas and i am addicted to edgar allen poe's stories and poems.
i like reading about the madness of others...mostly to block out my own...
so...why do you all read Poe's work?

[Quoth-the-Raven]

Greetings, young Poetess. I read Poe for two reasons: Poe's protagonists and Poe's unique style, which, because it is so unique, can teach you a lot about other literature.

Regards,

Raven.

[Mary Sue]

I like Poe because he was morbidly obsessed with death. As is all good horror fiction, really.
Friends often ask me WHY I like horror so much. And I always give the same answer: because it's a catharsis. Reading horror is a dress rehearsal for one's OWN death, hence it serves as a coping device for the deepest human fear. And Poe was the perfect person to deal with this subject, considering all the loved ones he lost,early on, to tuberculosis---his mother, his stepmother, even his young wife. Poe understood what it was to be destitute and bereaved; in a very real sense, Death was his constant companion throughout life!

[Falling-Away]

Hey.
Yeah I'm also a 15 year old Poe-loving girl. =)

Basically what I like about him is his style of writing. It's unusual and morbid but not overly depressing. And a lot of his poems are beautiful.

x

[RobinHood3000]

I love his style when it comes to his poetry, it's much less pretentious compared to guys like Ralph Waldo Emerson. As for his short stories, I love his ability to write what seems to be the perfect ending.

In pace requiescat!
...the beating of his hideous heart!!"
And my personal favorite: ...and Darkness, and Decay, and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

[Mary Sue]

Poe paved the way for countless other weird writers that were to follow in his mouldy footsteps: Lord Dunsany, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Poppy Brite, et al. Hail the Master! He has given us many sleepless nights, for which we all should honor him!

[toni]

Because his stories'/ poems' endings will always be beyond your imagination when it is written by Poe.

[eccehomo]

Hello fellow readers and opinioners...im a 15 year old girl from Texas and i am addicted to edgar allen poe's stories and poems.
i like reading about the madness of others...mostly to block out my own...
so...why do you all read Poe's work?


simply because Poe's (and perhaps, Poe himself) stories are sick..Reading them, produces in me sensations that are hitherto I cannot really explain...I suggest that you read Gogol, Kafka, Marquez, Dostoevsky, and the other surrealists to feel the same things...:D

[texas_chick]

i read Poe for the enjoyment of his words. even though i ,myself do not understand some of what he is saying but it's interesting to see his thoughts.