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Poe

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What you didn’t know about Edgar Allan Poe

A portrait of Edgar Allan Poe built from hidden details that reveal his passions, struggles, and contradictions beyond the gothic myth.


How to Create Characters in the Style of Poe

A practical guide to writing characters in Poe’s style: rational voices that inspire distrust, bodies turned into instruments of obsession, and settings that mirror the inner fractures of their protagonists.


How Poe Builds Tension in The Fall of the House of Usher

A journey through the invisible score with which Poe sustains panic in The Fall of the House of Usher: a rational narrator narrowing the frame, an architecture that foretells its end, a tempo that turns waiting into fear, and a choreography of echoes and silences that makes the collapse inevitable.