In Peter Coviello’s article, “Poe in love: Pedophilia, morbidity and the logic of slavery”, Coviello discusses what he terms to be an intimacy disturbance (878), through several of Poe’s works. Coviello discusses how this intimacy disturbance is seen in Poe’s works “The Fall of the House of Usher”,” Annabel Lee”, and “Morella” while identifying how each story relates to femininity, pedophilia, and racism. Coviello states that “Poe is read to and by children more than any other American literary figure” (875). Sexuality, horror and morbidity is also explored,
