Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American poet, novelist, journalist, and critic. He is rightfully considered the founder of a new literary genre for his time - detective stories. The world of the writer’s works is bizarre and at the same time exquisite. Its laws are not subject to generally accepted logic, but only to the play of the author’s imagination. Mysterious stories in which it is difficult to draw the line between reality and fiction, and horror suppresses all other feelings, fascinate and make you believe in the inexplicable...