Edgar Allan Poe

(Boston, USA, 1809-Baltimore, id., 1849) Poet, short story writer and critic. His
parents, itinerant theater actors, died when he was still a child. Edgar Allan Poe
was raised by John Allan, a wealthy Richmond businessman, 1815-1820 and lived
with him and his wife in the UK, where he began his education.
Edgar Allan Poe
His work as outrageous and often incisive literary critic earned him some notoriety,
and original insights about the story and the nature of poetry would not fail to gain
influence over time. The long illness of his wife, their marriage became a bitter
experience; when she died in 1847, his tendency to alcoholism and drug abuse
worsened, according to the testimony of his contemporaries. Both were, in all
probability, the cause of death.
The work of Edgar Allan Poe
According to Poe, the highest literary expression was poetry, and she devoted her
major efforts. It is justly celebrated his long poem The Raven (The Raven, 1845),
where his mastery of rhythm and sonority of the verse reaches its peak. The Bells
(The Bells, 1849), which evokes constantly pinging, Ulalume (1831) and Annabel
Lee (1849) report the same virtuosity.
But the genius and originality of Edgar Allan Poe are perhaps best expressed in
the stories, which, in his critical assessments are the second literary form because
they allow for uninterrupted reading, and thus the unity of effect that it is impossible
in the novel.
Posted under Tales title of the grotesque and arabesque (Tales of the Grotesque
and Arabesque, 1840), although there were new compilations of his stories in 1843
and 1845, mostly takes place in a gothic atmosphere and sinister, full of
supernatural interventions and in many cases foreshadow modern horror fiction;
good example of this is The Fall of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) house.
His short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue)
has been considered, quite rightly, as the founder of the genre of mystery and
detective. Also emphasizes his only novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
(The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym), crude realism and reappearing in numerous
elements of his stories. Poe's work greatly influenced the French Symbolists,
especially Charles Baudelaire, who was announced in Europe.

The Raven
Once, at the edge of a dismal average night,
While weak and tired, sad reflections embedded,
slant on an old and rare book of forgotten science,
nodding, almost asleep,
was suddenly a mild blow,
as if gently play,
play at the door of my room.
"It is - I said hissing - a visitor"
I am coming to the door of my room.
"That's all, and nothing more."
Ah! the lucid memory
an icy December;
Spectra of dying embers
reflected in the soil;
anguish of the desire of the new day;
in vain to more expensive to my books
give Truce to my pain.
Pain for the loss of Leonora, the only one,
Radiant Virgin, called Leonora by los angeles.
Here already without name, forever.
Sad gnashing, vague, chilling
Silk red curtains
llenabame's fantastic terrors
never before felt. And now here, on foot,
Muting the beating of my heart,
again I repeat:
"It's a visitor at the door of my room
wanting to enter. A visitor
suddenly to my room you want to enter.
"That's all, and nothing more."
Now, my mood was paid lease on life,
and now without hesitation:
"Mr - said - or Madam, truly your forgiveness"
implore,
the case is that, drowsiness
When you came to play quietly,
as I came to call,
to knock on the door of my room,
just I could believe that you hear you."
And then I opened wide the door:
Darkness, and nothing more.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, United States, August 20, 1890 - ibidem,
March 15, 1937) was an American writer, author of novels and short stories of
horror and science fiction. He is considered an innovator of horror story, which
brought its own mythology (Cthulhu mythos), developed in collaboration with others
and still in effect. His work is a classic of cosmic horror, a current that departs from
the traditional theme of supernatural horror (Satanism, ghosts), incorporating
elements of science fiction (alien races, time travel, the existence of other
dimensions). Lovecraft also cultivated poetry, essay and epistolary literature.
The Lovecraftian scholar Rafael Llopis wrote about the author: "Educated at a holy
fear mankind (except for this one to" good families "of Anglo-Saxon origin),
believed that nobody can understand or love anyone and felt a stranger in his
homeland. For him "the human mind [...] is perhaps the funniest and most
disheartening spectacle of the globe. '" 1
In the Dance Macabre (1981) study, the horror writer Stephen King says that
Lovecraft is "the dark prince and baroque horror story of the twentieth century" .2
In addition, as opposed to internal or psychological harm, "the concept of external
evil has longer range, is more impressive. Lovecraft understood this, and that is
what makes his stories of extraordinary cyclopean evil, as effective as they are
good. [best stories] make us feel the weight of the universe hanging over our
heads, suggest shadowy forces capable of destroying all alone with grunting in
dreams ".3
To his biographer ST Joshi, Lovecraft was "not a" stranger in this century, "asserts
himself as the protagonist of his story" The Stranger ". If you carefully study their
stories will be seen in them more than the escapist dreams of an outdated antique:
quickly find information such as the discovery of Pluto, quoted in The Whisperer in
Darkness (1930), or the then still controversial theory continental drift, in the novel
at the Mountains of Madness (1931). And digging deeper in the later fiction, we
stumbled repeatedly and significantly with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and Werner
Heisenberg, and metaphors about the future aesthetic, political and economic
development of mankind, which are transparent in alien civilizations appear in the
Tomb (1917), at the Mountains of Madness (1931) and the Shadow Out of Time
(1935).

Horror at Martin's Beach

[Story: Full text.]
H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Green
I never heard a convincing and adequate explanation of the horror of Martin's
Beach. Despite a large number of witnesses, no two match each other; and
testimony taken by local authorities contains the most striking discrepancies.
Perhaps this vagueness is normal in view of the unprecedented nature of the
horror itself, most paralyzing terror for those who saw it, and the efforts made by
the elegant Inn Wavecrest to silence after all the publicity created by Prof. Ahon
and his article "Are the hypnotic powers reserved to Human Beings?"
Against all these obstacles I try to present a coherent version; I saw the dreadful
fact and it should be disclosed in view of the frightening possibilities suggested.
Martin's Beach is once again a busy place, a resort well visited, and I shudder
when I think about it. However, I can not look at the ocean without trembling.
The target is not always without a sense of drama and climax. Thus the terrible
event of August 8 was followed by a period of less excitement about Martin's
Beach. It all started on May 17, when the crew of a fishing vessel, the "Soul of
Gloucester", under the command of Captain James P. Orne, killed after a battle of
nearly forty hours, a sea monster in size and appearance produced then stir in
scientific circles and that certain naturalists take great precautions Boston for
taxidermy preservation.
The animal was about 50 feet long and was cylindrical in shape, about ten feet in
diameter. Unmistakably was branquiado fish, mostly affiliation; but had some
curious modifications, such as rudimentary forelimbs as six legs with fingers
instead and pectoral fins (which promoted the broader speculation among
specialists). His extraordinary mouth, his thick, scaly skin and your sole and deep
eye were hardly less remarkable than its colossal wonders; and when naturalists
spoke saying he was a newborn, a few days of life, public interest creature took
extraordinary dimensions.
Captain Orne, with Yankee shrewdness, scored a vessel large enough to hold the
monster in his cellar, and arrange trophy display there. Applying a careful
carpenter, managed to assemble an excellent marine museum, and sailed south to
the luxurious seaside district of Martin's Beach. Once docked at the pier of the
hotel is dedicated to raising costly admission fees.