Edgar Allan Poe - American writer, poet, essayist, literary critic and editor, representative of American Romanticism. The creator of the form of a modern detective and the genre of psychological prose. Some of the works of Edgar Poe contributed to the formation and development of science fiction and such features of his work as irrationality, mysticism, doom, anomaly of the depicted states, anticipated the literature of decadence. Best known as the author of "scary" and mystical stories, as well as the poem "The Crow".
