Edgar Allen Poe's Writings

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Both authors wrote with great mystery, great differences, and great similarities. These authors were alike in many ways, they both wrote stories with a narrator, and an elderly person. One and the other of these authors wrote about death, pain, or mystery in most of their stories. These authors had alike but the same styles of their writing. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about how he felt about death, and the details he desired to enter. Roald Dahl wrote about ways of death, and entered details in his ambition. Edgar Allan Poe wrote from how he felt about the subject. I assume that Edgar Allen Poe didn’t care about what others would comprehend about his writing. Also I consider that Edgar Allen Poe was a little bit different from most of the other

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