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Edgar Allen Poe has a very distinguishable style and does things his own way. Poe is known primarily for his mastery of the Gothic genre, and his works of horror. The style of a piece of literature is the result of a successful blending of form with content. When applied to literature the style suggests objective presentation, formal structure, and clear language, it is the way a story is written. Poe takes his style to an extreme. He writes his stories to be very depressing and dark. They are very graphic and very much vivid in details. Edgar Allen Poe uses his own life and his experiences to create the story that he does. His short stories are dark, gloomy, and full of terror. There is a lot of torture, death, and superstition. His pieces of literature were all made to bring about fear into the mind of the reader. His life wasn't a normal life. He didn't have much of a childhood and was sick with a disease. His early life factors help to make his horrifying works much more......

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