Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. He is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. [Original author portrait by Jakob Grim.]
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The Tell-Tale Heart
TRUE!-NERVOUS—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not...