Edgar Allan Poe, an American poet, novelist and literary critic in the/kloc-9th century, served as a newspaper editor for a long time before his death. His works are "unique" at any time. The language and form are exquisite and beautiful, and the content is diverse. The originator of detective novels, one of the pioneers of science fiction, a master of horror novels, one of the pioneers of symbolism and an aesthete. The main figures influenced by Poe are Conan Doyle, Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, jules verne, robert louis stevenson, Hitchcock, tim burton and Edgar Vajpore. Poe's most famous literary theory is "the theory of effect". Edgar Allan Poe tried to establish an effect in his works, and then he thought about creation to pursue this effect. In the preface of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, he said that "most of his works are well thought out and painstaking".

Slope (1809 ~ 1849) and ambrose bierce (1842 ~ 19 14? ) and H.P. Lovecraft (1890 ~ 1937) are called the three major American horror novelists.